He offered her a million dollars to pretend to love him. She never imagined his family might be connected to her father’s death. Ava Bennett has forty-eight hours to find a way to save her younger sister’s future—or watch the last chance of getting her life-changing surgery slip away. Then Adrian Blackwood makes her an offer that could solve all her problems. At thirty-two, Adrian is a billionaire who has everything money can buy. Everything except the freedom to escape his family’s expectations. With his grandfather demanding that he settle down, Adrian needs a convincing girlfriend—and he is willing to pay one million dollars for six months of pretending. Ava despises his arrogance. Adrian thinks she is stubborn. Neither expects their business arrangement to become personal. But with her sister’s future at stake, Ava signs the contract. Living under the same roof brings heated arguments, unexpected tenderness, and kisses that feel far too real. The more Ava discovers about the man behind Adrian’s cold exterior, the harder it becomes to remember that their relationship has an expiration date. Then an anonymous message shatters everything she thought she knew. Her late father once had dealings with Adrian’s grandfather. An old photograph places the two men together shortly before her father’s mysterious death. And someone wants Ava to ask one terrifying question: Who really wanted her father gone? As family secrets surface, Adrian’s former fiancée issues warnings, and his ambitious cousin becomes entangled in the mystery, Ava faces an impossible choice. She is falling for a man whose family may hold the answers she has spent years searching for. Adrian never planned to give his heart to a woman he hired. Ava never planned to fall for a man she might have every reason to hate. But when the contract ends, the truth could destroy their relationship before either has the courage to admit what they feel. She signed the contract to save her sister. She may lose her heart trying to