Anastasia Hughes has already lost everything once—her father, her family’s trust, and the reputation of the company she was meant to inherit. When a shocking betrayal from her sister is followed by a coup from her own investors, she has just 30 days to salvage what’s left of her world. Desperate and out of options, she turns to the one man she swore she would never need: Dominic Bernadino—her family’s greatest ally and her own personal nightmare. Dominic has problems of his own. His father’s coma has placed the entire Bernadino empire on his shoulders—and the only way to secure his inheritance is to fulfill his father’s last demand: marry. When he discovers that Anastasia’s disgraced ex-boyfriend is the same mysterious threat targeting his company, Dominic sees an opportunity. A contract marriage. A temporary alliance. A controlled risk. But nothing about their marriage stays controlled. When a mutual enemy resurfaces with a threat to expose a secret that is sealed in death. Anna and Dominic become the only ones capable of stopping him. To save their companies—and each other—they must learn to trust the bond neither meant to form. A love born from danger. A future written in the code of a machine that knew them better than they knew themselves. A marriage that began as punishment becomes the one thing worth fighting for.