Marry me for one year, and I’ll pay for your brother’s treatment.”I should have walked away. Instead, I signed my name.Elara Voss has nothing left to lose. Her brother needs expensive treatment, the bills are drowning her, and now getting desperate, she considers the one thing she never thought she would do; marry a billionaire she barely knows.Damien Calder doesn't want a wife. He wants a woman who can play as one long enough to secure his inheritance and protect his company from slipping from his armsThe rules are simple; one year, one house, one marriage but no love.Elara even negotiates her own terms. Her brother's treatment comes first. Everything else is business.Then the billionaire starts coming home early just to see her. He remembers the little things she likes, leaves her coffee beside her sketches, watches her like she's the only real thing in his carefully controlled world. And when his hand settles against her waist at a gala, neither of them remembers the contract for one dangerous second.Elara knows she is falling for her fake husband but what she doesn't know is that she was never chosen by accident.Her desperation was part of the plan! And when she overhears the truth, she realizes every tender moment, every sacrifice, every promise may have been built on the same thing that brought her into his mansion in the first place: her vulnerability.She leaves Damien with nothing but the contract he used to own her future. But Damien has finally learned the difference between possessing someone and loving them. This time, he isn't asking her to stay.He's giving her the one thing their marriage never really had: a choice.