When her sister runs from her own wedding, Claire Voss steps in as the stand-in bride for billionaire Roman Ashford — a cold, controlled man who needed a wife for a contract, not a partner for life. Twelve months. Four million dollars and a clean exit. That was the plan. But living in the same space, showing up to the same rooms, sharing the same quiet mornings does something neither of them prepared for. Roman can't stop watching her. Claire can't stop seeing through him. And somewhere between the arrangement and the honesty, the line between contract and real disappears entirely.