The deal was simple.
Callum Drake needs a wife — not for love, but for a multi-billion dollar merger
that requires him to appear stable, settled, and above suspicion.
Nadia Voss needs money and a way out of a past that is quietly closing in on her.
They sign the contract. They agree on the rules.
No emotions. No interference. No complications.
They are already breaking every single one.
What Callum doesn't know: Nadia was placed inside this marriage
by his most dangerous competitor to extract confidential merger intelligence.
She has a handler, a deadline, and a brother whose life depends on her delivery.
What Nadia doesn't know: Callum flagged her before the ink was dry.
He has known from the beginning.
He let her in anyway — because if someone sent her,
he wants to know who. And why. And what they know about him.
So now they are both performing.
Both watching. Both feeding the other carefully constructed half-truths.
Both falling — slowly, inconveniently, and entirely against their will.
A marriage built on lies, where both sides know the truth.
But not all of it.
Because neither of them knows what their shared enemy has really planned —
and by the time they find out,
the only way to survive it is to trust the one person
they have been lying to since the beginning.
