I BECAME THE BILLIONAIRE'S WIFE OVERNIGHT
Emily Hart has one goal: save her late mother's bakery and open a pastry shop of her own before she turns twenty five. She has never wanted anything from the Whitfield family beyond their weekly order of croissants. Then her father tells her the truth he has hidden for years. He owes the Whitfield family trust a debt so large it will cost them the bakery within the month, unless Emily agrees to something that sounds impossible. Marry Nathaniel Whitfield, the coldest, most unreachable man in Manhattan, for one year.
Nathaniel does not want a wife. He wants control of the company his grandfather built, and his grandmother's will has strapped that control to a wedding ring with a thirty day deadline. Every candidate his assistant has vetted wants his money, his name, or his photograph on their arm. Emily Hart wants none of it. She looks at him like he is a person and not a headline, and that terrifies him more than the deadline does.
What begins as a transaction, a signature, a rushed courthouse wedding that makes Emily a billionaire's wife overnight, becomes something neither of them planned for. Small kindnesses. A shared umbrella. An accidental laugh in the back of a car. But Nathaniel's ex fiancee Vanessa has not forgotten what she lost, and she is not finished trying to take it back, this time by any means necessary. Meanwhile Emily's stubborn independence and Nathaniel's instinct to control everything around him collide again and again, each fight peeling back one more layer of the walls both of them built.
As the year draws on, secrets buried in both families start to surface. A hidden clause in Eleanor's will. A document Vanessa still has.