THE BILLIONAIRE'S CONTRACT WIFE

Ellie Hartman never planned to marry a billionaire. She planned to save her grandmother’s bakery, the one with the chipped blue tile and the photograph of her grandfather still hanging by the door, the one that has fed the same Brooklyn block for thirty years. When an eviction notice arrives with sixty days on the clock, Ellie does what she always does. She fights. She marches into Cross Tower ready to shout at whoever is heartless enough to tear down a neighborhood, and she spills a full cup of coffee down the front of the coldest, most powerful man in New York. His name is Nathan Cross, and he has been waiting for her, though not for the reason she thinks. Nathan has thirty four days to marry or lose everything his father built to a scheming uncle who has already picked out his own office chair. Buried in an old family letter is the answer neither of them wants. Forty years ago, Ellie’s grandfather saved Nathan’s grandfather’s company, and a promise was made. If a Cross ever needs a Hartman, a Hartman will answer. Nathan needs a wife. Ellie needs a miracle. One contract, one year, and every debt on both sides disappears.