THE BILLIONAIRE CLAUSE WE BROKE

Love Was Never in the Contract

von Lira A. Vale

372 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Mara Ellison doesn't trust powerful men, and she has good reason not to. Five years ago, a Cross Urban redevelopment took her father's bookstore - and, not long after, her father too. So when billionaire developer Julian Cross offers her a one-year marriage of convenience to save his family's company, her answer is no.Until she realizes she can name her own price: permanent protection for Hawthorne House, the historic building she's fighting to save from the wrecking ball. Julian agrees. Mara adds one condition of her own - Clause Eleven, a promise that neither of them will sacrifice anything for the other that isn't already in the contract.It should be simple. Separate rooms. Separate lives. One year, and out.But forced proximity has a way of rewriting the rules nobody meant to break. Respect becomes desire. Desire becomes something neither of them bargained for. And just when the marriage starts to feel real, Mara discovers the truth Julian was hired to hide from her all along - a truth that ties him directly to the man who destroyed her father.Now Mara must decide whether accountability and love can survive where a contract never should have started. And Julian must decide what he's willing to lose - his company, his name, his last shot at control - to prove that some things were never meant to be negotiated.A slow-burn, forced-proximity billionaire romance about the difference between what money can buy and what has to be freely given.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175789820
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Independently published