His Contract Fiancée

She needed the money. He needed the cover. Neither of them needed the feelings. Aria James is one missed payment away from losing everything. With her mother's medical bills mounting and no options left, she is surviving on stubbornness alone. She is not looking for a hero. She is looking for a way out. Ethan Cole is one of the most powerful men in the country. Brilliant, controlled, and completely closed off from anything that cannot be managed, measured, or put in a contract.
His family is pressuring him to marry a woman he does not love, and he is running out of time and excuses. His solution is simple. A fake engagement. Three months. Five hundred thousand dollars. Clean, professional, and strictly temporary. Aria agrees. It is just business. Except Ethan did not plan for a woman who leaves books on his kitchen counter and cooks soup at midnight and looks at him like she can see straight through every wall he ever built.
And Aria did not plan for a man who sits with her sick mother in a hospital room, who dances with her like the room has emptied out, and who looks at her when he thinks she is not watching with an expression that has nothing to do with any contract. The arrangement has rules. An end date. An exit clause. Feelings do not read contracts. When the truth is exposed in the most devastating way possible and everything falls apart, Aria makes the hardest choice of her life.
She walks away to protect the man she was never supposed to love. And Ethan must decide whether the empire he built around his heart is worth more than the woman who somehow became the realest thing in it. His Contract Fiancee is a deeply emotional, slow burn romance about two broken and beautifully complicated people who never meant to save each other. And did anyway. Some deals change the terms of your heart.