Maya Carter has never needed a man to build the life she wants.Raised in a hardworking middle-class family, the ambitious twenty-four-year-old has always believed in earning her own way. Her dream is simple: build a successful career, start her own business, and never depend on someone else's wealth.Then she meets Adrian Vale.At twenty-nine, Adrian is the powerful CEO of Vale International—a man known for his intelligence, control, and seemingly untouchable life. To Maya, he's arrogant, demanding, and impossible to impress.To Adrian, Maya is the first woman in years who isn't intimidated by him.When a growing family power struggle threatens Adrian's position as CEO, he needs a solution. A convincing relationship could help protect his carefully constructed image and silence the people questioning his ability to lead.So he makes Maya an offer she never expected.Three months. One contract. A fake relationship.There are rules.No real feelings.No interfering with each other's lives.No crossing boundaries.And most importantly—no falling in love.Maya agrees because she believes she can walk away when the contract ends.But pretending to love Adrian becomes harder when the man behind the billionaire image begins to reveal himself—the wounds, the fears, and the vulnerable side he hides from everyone else.And Adrian discovers that Maya isn't someone he can simply buy, control, or convince to stay.What begins as a carefully calculated arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them planned for.Something real.But when the contract they promised to keep secret is finally exposed, Maya is left questioning everything they shared.Was she ever truly loved?Or was she simply another part of Adrian Vale's carefully calculated plan?Because the hardest part of a fake relationship isn't falling in love.It's discovering whether the love was ever real.

Elena Russo has spent her entire life hating the Marchetti name. When a fragile peace between two rival mafia families demands a sacrifice, she's forced to marry Dante Marchetti—the ruthless heir known only as The Wolf. She expects cruelty. She expects betrayal. She expects to spend every day searching for a way to escape the man she was taught to despise. What she doesn't expect is the way he watches over her, the way he shields her from bullets, or the way his cold heart seems to soften only when she's near. As secrets buried for decades begin to surface, Elena discovers their marriage was never meant to end a war. It was part of a much darker plan orchestrated by a mysterious organization that has manipulated powerful families for years. Now, with enemies hiding inside both bloodlines and danger lurking behind every smile, Elena must decide whether to trust the man she was raised to hate... before the people hunting them destroy everything they've begun to build. In a world where loyalty is bought, love is forbidden, and betrayal wears a familiar face, one question remains: Can a marriage born from obligation become the one thing worth dying for?