Emma Carter believed she was about to marry the man she loved. Instead, she watched him marry her half-sister. Humiliated and heartbroken, Emma walked away from the wedding with nothing but shattered dreams and a family drowning in debt. Then Ethan Blake, the cold and dangerously powerful billionaire, offered her an impossible deal: Marry me for one year, and I will save your family. Emma accepted. She thought it was only a contract. No love. No feelings. No expectations. But living under the same roof as Ethan quickly became complicated. Behind his cold eyes was a man hiding dangerous secrets—and a past strangely connected to Emma's own. Then her former fiancé came crawling back, claiming he had made the biggest mistake of his life. But Emma was no longer the woman he had abandoned at the altar. As forbidden feelings grow between Emma and Ethan, enemies begin closing in, secrets from the past emerge, and Emma discovers that her marriage may have been planned long before she ever met Ethan. Why did the billionaire really choose her? And when Emma finally discovers the truth, will she still want to be his wife?