Two lifelong best friends, Ava and Kai, grew up in a tight-knit small town. Everyone always assumed they'd marry, Except them. Their friendship was sacred, messy, loud, and deeply platonic... until Ava's father dies mysteriously, leaving behind a will that forces her to marry Kai within a month to inherit the family estate, or it gets sold to a faceless corporation.
Kai reluctantly agrees, not because he wants her money, but because he suspects her father's death wasn't an accident... and marrying her will give him legal access to investigate a dangerous truth.
Ava has no idea that Kai has been working undercover for a shadowy federal division and that the "corporation" trying to buy her home is actually a front for a human trafficking ring her father had been fighting against.
Marriage turns their friendship into a warzone. They fight over toothpaste, sleeping arrangements, and Kai's overprotective behavior... until an assassination attempt at their fake honeymoon reveals that Ava is the next target.
Now, they're running for their lives while pretending to be madly in love, sharing hotel rooms, stealing clothes from strangers' laundry lines, and dodging bullets. The danger pushes them into moments they can't explain.