On her wedding day, Amelia Hart exposed her fiancé as a serial cheater in front of everyone who mattered. By the time she walked out of the church, she had lost her fiancé, her father's support, and the financial control she needed to save the fashion house she built from nothing. Then she met Ryan Beaumont. A billionaire she barely knew. A man powerful enough to make her father think twice. He doesn't need a wife. But he needs his grandfather to believe he can put the family first, or watch the company he built get handed to his cousin instead. So Ryan made her an offer neither of them expected. Marriage. She didn't say yes right away. But their marriage came with an expiration date. Eight months. One contract. Two strangers who were never supposed to feel anything at all. It should have been simple. Until the billionaire started falling first, her disgraced ex-fiancé refused to let her go, and his own cousin decided her marriage was the perfect weapon to take everything Ryan had built. When the contract becomes a target, Amelia discovers that the man she married for protection may be the only one willing to risk everything to keep her.