The Fake Marriage Contract

Olivia Harrison has spent years surviving by shrinking-quietly, carefully, invisibly. When she finally slips loose, she expects the world to swallow her whole. Instead, she collides with a man who moves like he owns the dark. Kade Spencer doesn't offer comfort; he offers a solution-clean, cold, and impossible to refuse. A name. A ring. A role. A way to disappear in plain sight.

Kade calls it business. Olivia calls it escape. But bargains have a way of growing teeth, and pretending is a dangerous kind of intimacy. The more she relies on his protection, the more she notices the cracks in his control-sleepless nights, a temper held by sheer will, a loneliness he keeps locked behind steel. She needs his power to stay safe. He needs her presence to stay human.

And when the pressure closes in, what happens when the person you swore you didn't need becomes the one thing you can't let go?