THE MARRIAGE CLAUSE

Fashion designer Elena Voss has only months left to marry before her twenty-eighth birthday or lose her late grandmother’s legendary atelier to a greedy uncle. Tech CEO Damian Hale needs a respectable wife to calm a conservative board and secure a massive merger while silencing the playboy rumors that threaten his company. Their lawyers introduce them. The solution is simple: a clean twelve-month marriage contract with zero physical obligations, shared penthouse, and perfect public performances. But living under the same roof, attending events as a couple, and forcing themselves into constant proximity quickly turns the carefully written “no intimacy” clause into the most dangerous thing they never planned for. What began as a business arrangement becomes a slow, scorching war of restraint neither of them is prepared to lose.