The Marriage Clause
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Lila Monroe never planned on marrying her best friend. Especially not in a sketchy neon chapel with his jealous cousin plotting their downfall.
But when Ezra Kingsley-the boy who's been making her life chaotic since middle school-suddenly needs a wife to secure his five million dollar inheritance, Lila finds herself saying "I do" faster than she can google how to annul a marriage.
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