"Marry me… or watch your brother die."Mia Hale never imagined her brother's life would depend on a cold, ruthless billionaire. But Adrian Cross isn't offering charity he's offering a deal.One year. A fake marriage. No falling in love.Those are his rules. Break them and the deal is off and her brother pays the price.Mia tells herself it's just business. One year of her life for her brother's survival. She can handle his cruelty. His coldness. His control.What she can't handle is the truth she was never supposed to find.Adrian's late wife died under circumstances nobody could fully explain. His sister went searching for answers and never came back. And someone inside his empire, someone he trusts, has been silencing anyone who digs too deep.Now they're watching Mia.The deeper she's pulled into his world, the more dangerous she becomes to people who have already destroyed lives to protect their secrets. And Adrian, the man who buried his heart with his wife begins to feel something he swore he never would again.Fear, not of losing his empire but of losing her.In a marriage built on lies, surrounded by enemies wearing friendly faces, falling in love was never part of the contract.But will her heart be the ultimate price?