Layla is a broke, tattooed American girl fresh out of college, drowning in student loans and days away from eviction. The last thing she expects is an invitation to a luxury fashion pageant — and the last thing she expects after that is a marriage contract.Rashid Al-Nassar is powerful, wealthy, and secretly gay. As the firstborn son of a prominent Arabic royal family, the pressure to marry has become impossible to ignore. His solution? Find a girl his traditional family will never approve of — tattoos, wrong religion, wrong background — just enough to keep them quiet without actually giving them what they want.The arrangement is simple. Two years. Layla gets her debts cleared, her mother's care funded, and her dream fashion brand launched. Rashid gets his family off his back while protecting his secret — a scandalous affair with a powerful politician running for president.But nothing about this arrangement stays simple.When Layla arrives at the Al-Nassar palace in Dubai, she comes face to face with Kazeem — Rashid's younger brother. Warm, genuine, and completely off limits. The attraction is instant and undeniable, and the guilt is immediate.She is his brother's wife.She has no business feeling anything.But the heart does not care about contracts.