“She married the man who destroyed her family to find the evidence that would bury him. He married her to save a billion-dollar inheritance. Neither planned to fall , and neither planned to find out the truth would hurt worse than the lie. Elara Vaughn is twenty-six, brilliant, and furious. When her father is arrested for a forty-million-dollar fraud she doesn't believe he committed, she does the only thing her forensic accountant's mind can construct: she walks into the office of the man the world says is responsible, and proposes a deal. One year of marriage. She gets access to the executive archives that hold the real evidence. He gets a legal wife before his thirty-fifth birthday , the one condition standing between him and a hidden two-billion-dollar subsidiary. Rowan Vale agrees. He is not a man who loses. She is not a woman who trusts. Their contract is airtight. Their chemistry is not. But the ledgers Elara finds don't say what she expected. And the man she married to destroy is beginning to look dangerously like the only honest person in the room. Some truths cost everything. Some people are worth it.”