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Thirty-one days. Seven pages. One rule: don't lie to each other. Elodie Marchetti built her father's chocolate empire with her own hands — 312 shops, doubled revenue, her mother's legacy in every box. Now her father says she'll only inherit the chair if she brings someone to the family table by Christmas. Julian Hale is called the Iceberg for a reason. 44 ships, no wife, no time. His grandmother's trust says he must present a fiancée at Hollin Hall by Christmas Eve, or his family's company will be split and sold. They have known each other for nine minutes total. His solution? A contract. 31 days from December 1st to 31st. Separate bedrooms. No touching unless an audience requires it. In January, they part quietly. No feelings. Just signatures. Elodie adds one rule of her own: Section Twelve: Neither party will lie to the other about anything that is not in this contract. It's easy — until they reach Hollin Hall, Vermont. Until his beautiful ex-fiancée arrives in a cream coat and says "Hello, Jules." Until his 81-year-old grandmother starts testing her with cinnamon rolls at 2 a.m. Until the man who never sleeps starts following her into the kitchen to learn how to knead dough. A fake engagement. A real family. A secret about the night his parents died on the Meridian Star. And a contract that said not to lie — but said nothing about falling in love. Slow-burn | Fake Engagement to Real Love | Billionaire Grumpy x Sunshine Baker | Found Family | Cinnamon Rolls & Second Chances For readers 21 and over.

A marriage built on paper. A love written between the lines. Nicole knew the rules from the beginning. One year. No feelings. No expectations. Gabriel knew them too—yet somehow, everything changed. Between quiet glances, unspoken longing, and moments that felt too real to ignore, a simple arrangement turned into something neither of them was prepared for. But when the time comes to walk away, will they honor the deal they made… or the love they never meant to find?

Estranged half-sisters Odalys and Reign are forced by their late father's will to marry two brothers running a billionaire empire, or lose everything to a cousin waiting to take it all. Years of family wounds sit between the sisters, and now they're forced to live under the same roof as their new husbands' family. Somewhere between the fighting and the forced dinners, both women start feeling something they didn't sign up for.

Elise Hale didn't marry Callum Voss for love. Their marriage was a deal born from the ruins of her family's downfall. For two years, they lived under the same roof like strangers—sharing a name, but never sharing their hearts. When Callum finally announces that he wants a divorce so he can marry the woman he has always loved, Vivienne, Elise doesn't cry or beg him to stay. Instead, she asks for one thing: four more weeks before everything ends. Four weeks to secure the future of the business she built from nothing. Four weeks to experience what it truly feels like to be Callum's wife. But as they begin pretending to be a happily married couple, the line between obligation and genuine feelings starts to blur. Meanwhile, the secret Elise has hidden for years slowly comes to light, forcing Callum to question everything he thought he knew about their marriage. When regret arrives too late, will love still find its way back? Or will it destroy them both for a second time?