"Sign the contract, Ciara. You get the money to save your father, and I get the wife my family demands. But remember—no touching, and absolutely no falling in love." "Don't worry, Mr. Sterling. I don't like playing with blocks of ice anyway." - - - To save her dying father, Ciara Vance agrees to a 365-day marriage contract with Chicago billionaire Alexandier Sterling. She believes she is marrying a cold, ruthless man desperate to protect his inheritance. What she doesn't know is that Alexandier chose her long before they ever met. Their marriage was never a coincidence. It was part of a secret plan born from a tragedy that changed both their families forever. But the man who planned everything never expected to be the first to fall in love. As his carefully built lies begin to crumble, the truth threatens to destroy everything they have built together. And when the truth finally comes out, he may lose the only woman he has ever truly loved. Now, the billionaire who once believed he could control everything must get on his knees and fight for the only woman he was never meant to lose.