I am Maya Vance. I never wanted anything to do with a man like Julian Cross. He is cold, arrogant, and has more money than he knows how to spend. I am just trying to keep my small writing business from going down the drain, when a massive debt threatens everything I have worked for so Julian offers me a deal I cannot refuse. He will pay off the debt, and in return, I have to become his contract wife for one year to fix his damaged public reputation. It sounds like a simple business deal, so I just agreed to it . But the more time I spend in his shiny, dangerous world, the more I realize that Julian is hiding a deeply broken heart. I promised myself I would never fall for him, but pretending to love him makes it real. Then, he makes the biggest mistake of his life and throws me out. He bought my name, but losing my trust will cost him everything.

Five years ago, the man I loved shattered my heart in front of the entire world. So when I returned home and saw Adrian Sinclair again, I swore I’ll never let him hurt me twice. Then fate threw me into something even more insane. On the day I was supposed to meet billionaire Julian Vale for the first time, his bride runs away… and I become his replacement. Now I’m trapped in a six-month contract marriage with the city’s most powerful bachelor, while the man who once broke me watches from the sidelines. It was supposed to be simple. Six months and no feelings. But the longer I stayed in Julian’s world, the more dangerous everything became. Because the scandal that destroyed my family five years ago wasn’t an accident. Someone framed my father. Someone powerful. And the deeper I dug for the truth, the more I realised this marriage may not be fake at all… and someone will do anything to destroy me before I expose them.