Title: The Price of RuinGenre: Contemporary Romance / Forced Proximity​Nora Vance is working seventy hours a week at a printing shop just to keep a roof over her sick younger sister Maya’s head. But her world crashes down when she gets a court summons from Vane & Partners, the biggest financial firm in the city. Her late father fraudulently signed her name to a massive debt before he died, and the firm is moving to seize her home in twenty-four hours.​Desperate to protect Maya, Nora goes directly to the firm's ruthless managing director, Julian Vane.​Julian is facing his own war: his scheming uncle is trying to oust him from the company, and the board wants a stable, married man in charge. Seeing Nora's fierce loyalty and refusal to back down, Julian offers a deal: a six-month fake marriage to secure his position. In exchange, he will erase her father’s debt, buy her sister’s apartment outright, and pay for Maya’s medical care.​Living together in Julian’s estate, their tense business arrangement quickly gets complicated. Nora proves to be more than a match for the snobbish high-society world, and Julian turns out to be far more protective than the cold corporate boss he pretends to be. When Julian’s uncle tries to destroy Nora’s home district to get to them, Julian risks his own fortune to stop it, proving his loyalty isn't just on paper.​As the corporate showdown approaches, Nora and Julian must decide if their marriage was just a six-month survival tactic—or if the love growing between them is the real deal.