I don't know his name. I know the shape of his hand at my throat, the low command in his voice, and the way he made me forget every rule I'd ever set for myself — for one masked, anonymous night I was never supposed to think about again.

Then my father hands me a contract instead of a wedding invitation.

Marry Gideon Vane within thirty days, or lose the orchard that's kept my family fed for four generations. Gideon Vane, who owns the note on our land. Gideon Vane, who walks into my father's kitchen in a suit that costs more than our tractor and looks at me like I'm a debt he intends to collect in full.

I say yes because I have no choice. I don't recognize his voice until our wedding night — and by then it's too late to run.

Gideon Vane doesn't lose. Not land, not leverage, not the woman he can't stop thinking about since the one night he broke every rule of his own masquerade to have her — and never got her name before she vanished. When his grandfather's will forces his hand, marrying the daughter of the family who's fought his for a hundred years is supposed to be a transaction. Nothing more.

Then she walks down the aisle, and I recognize her.

Now I'm married to the one woman who could ruin me — sharing her bed, her house, her name — and I have exactly one choice to make: tell her the truth and lose her, or keep my silence and keep her. I choose keep. Whatever it takes. Whatever she has to forgive.

She thinks this is a business deal. I intend to make her forget the word "convenience" entirely.

A high-heat, emotionally intense standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Tropes: Forced Proximity, Marriage of Convenience, Masked/Anonymous Encounter, Possessive Alpha Hero, Small-Town Forbidden, Dual POV

18+ Explicit content. Intended for mature readers.