“Emily Parker has a simple life plan: write her steamy romance novels, collect her royalties, sleep whenever she wants, and avoid anything that sounds like responsibility. Marriage? Absolutely not. But when her aunt threatens to drag her back to the countryside and marry her off the traditional way, Emily makes a desperate promise-she'll find a husband in three months. There's just one problem. She's single. She hates dating. And she's far too lazy to fall in love. So she does what any rational, comfort-loving woman would do-she signs up for a contract marriage. Temporary husband. Minimal effort. Clean divorce. Peace restored. Except the man who accepts her proposal isn't just some convenient stranger. He's Adrian Vale. Thirty-one. Devastatingly calm. CEO of a global empire. And he remembers her. Emily may have lost her childhood memories in the accident that killed their parents-but Adrian never forgot a single detail. Not the night that changed everything. Not the little girl who once held his hand. Not the name she would one day unknowingly choose as her pen name: Vale. To her, it was just a contract. To him, it was fate. As secrets from the past begin to surface and the truth behind their shared tragedy threatens to tear them apart, Emily must decide whether to keep running from responsibility... or finally choose the man who has loved her long before she could remember him. She wanted a temporary husband. He's been waiting for her his entire life.”