Damien Ashworth doesn't do sentiment. He doesn't do weddings, either not for love, anyway. But his father's will has one final demand: marry within the year, or lose everything he's spent his life building to a brother who'd burn it down for the insurance money. He needs a wife. Ivy needs a miracle. One signature solves them both.

It's supposed to be simple. A year, a contract, an exit strategy already written into the fine print. No feelings. No complications. No falling for the woman who was only ever meant to be a convenient arrangement.

But Ivy Bennett doesn't play by anyone's terms but her own, and the longer Damien watches her refuse to be intimidated by his money, his name, or his ice-cold reputation, the more he starts to wonder if the real trap was ever the will at all.

Some bargains are made to be broken. This one might be the one thing Damien Ashworth refuses to let go.