For the next 365 days, body and soul, you belong to me."Elena Vance’s world shatters when her deadbeat stepfather gambles away her family's safety, leaving them at the mercy of New York’s most dangerous underground loan sharks. Desperate to save her chronically ill mother, Elena has no choice but to accept a cold business proposition from Ethan Blackburn—the ruthless, ice-cold tech tycoon known as the King of Wall Street.Ethan needs a scandal-free, compliant wife for exactly one year to fulfill a strict inheritance clause in his grandfather’s will and secure his corporate empire. Trapped in his hyper-modern mansion during a suffocating New York summer, Elena vows to protect her pride and her heart from her tyrannical contract husband. But as the fake smiles for the paparazzi turn into burning, possessive passion behind closed doors, the lines of their agreement blur. When the 365 days expire, will she be able to walk away from the beast, or has he already claimed her forever?