He didn't just buy my debt. He bought me.
A $300,000 gambling debt. A violent stepfather banging on my apartment door. A syndicate of ruthless loan sharks waiting to collect my life as payment. I am out of options and entirely out of time. Then Damien Blackwood steps out of the shadows. Cold, calculating, and devastatingly powerful, Damien is New York's most feared billionaire CEO. He doesn't offer charity; he demands a business transaction. With a single, softly spoken word, he makes my monsters disappear. He erases my debt and offers me the ultimate safety net inside his high-security glass penthouse. The price? 365 days.
One year of my life as his contract wife. In public, we must be the perfect, adoring couple to secure his corporate empire against a treacherous family rival. In private, the rules are non-negotiable: separate bedroom wings, no personal questions, and absolutely no physical contact. But Damien is a man who demands absolute control, and I am the one variable he can't predict. As forced proximity blurs the icy lines of our arrangement, his "professional distance" morphs into a dark, terrifying possessiveness.
Every heated glare across the dining table and every accidental brush of his hand ignites a tension that threatens to consume us both. Soon, I discover I wasn't chosen by accident. I am the ultimate bait in a deadly corporate war. As hidden enemies close in and dark secrets from my criminal past threaten to destroy us both, the boundaries of our fake marriage dissolve.
Damien is a man who "erases" his enemies, and he will burn down his entire empire to protect what is his. But to survive the fallout, I have to decide if I am willing to surrender my heart to the monster who bought it.
The 365-Day Contract is a standalone, high-angst dark billionaire romance filled with explosive chemistry, dangerous corporate espionage, and a ruthless alpha who will wage war against the world for the woman he claims as his.
Tropes you'll find in this book:
A $300,000 gambling debt. A violent stepfather banging on my apartment door. A syndicate of ruthless loan sharks waiting to collect my life as payment. I am out of options and entirely out of time. Then Damien Blackwood steps out of the shadows. Cold, calculating, and devastatingly powerful, Damien is New York's most feared billionaire CEO. He doesn't offer charity; he demands a business transaction. With a single, softly spoken word, he makes my monsters disappear. He erases my debt and offers me the ultimate safety net inside his high-security glass penthouse. The price? 365 days.
One year of my life as his contract wife. In public, we must be the perfect, adoring couple to secure his corporate empire against a treacherous family rival. In private, the rules are non-negotiable: separate bedroom wings, no personal questions, and absolutely no physical contact. But Damien is a man who demands absolute control, and I am the one variable he can't predict. As forced proximity blurs the icy lines of our arrangement, his "professional distance" morphs into a dark, terrifying possessiveness.
Every heated glare across the dining table and every accidental brush of his hand ignites a tension that threatens to consume us both. Soon, I discover I wasn't chosen by accident. I am the ultimate bait in a deadly corporate war. As hidden enemies close in and dark secrets from my criminal past threaten to destroy us both, the boundaries of our fake marriage dissolve.
Damien is a man who "erases" his enemies, and he will burn down his entire empire to protect what is his. But to survive the fallout, I have to decide if I am willing to surrender my heart to the monster who bought it.
The 365-Day Contract is a standalone, high-angst dark billionaire romance filled with explosive chemistry, dangerous corporate espionage, and a ruthless alpha who will wage war against the world for the woman he claims as his.
Tropes you'll find in this book:
- Marriage of Convenience / Fake Relationship
Dark Billionaire / Morally Grey Hero
Enemies to Lovers Tension
"Touch Her and You Die" Energy
Forced Proximity (One Penthouse!)
Possessive & Protective Alpha Male
Secret Protector
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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