The Fake Bride Contract
(2026)(The tenth book in the Fated to the Shifter Billionaire series)
A novel by Lori Heart
He's the billionaire who can plan for anything. She's the assistant who's been spying on him — and she has no idea.
Theodore Drakonis runs the money, the code, and the machinery of an empire, and he believes — sincerely — that any problem can be solved with a good enough plan. He has months to bond before an ancient law strips him of everything. He has a network to trace. What he does not have is a contingency for the moment he realizes his own quietly extraordinary assistant is the spy he's been hunting — and his fated mate — and that she has no idea she's a weapon at all.
Emma Lawson is twenty-one and exquisitely good at being indispensable and invisible. She files a harmless weekly report to a staffing agency because it pays for her father's cancer treatment, and she has never once let herself ask why a staffing agency cares so much. She's the one who holds everyone up. She's never learned to inspect the rope.
To pull her out of the trap she doesn't know she's in, Theodore offers the most illogical thing he's ever proposed: a fake relationship. Step into the light on his arm, where the enemy can't touch her. It's a strategy. A contract. A kinder cage. But the bond completes only if she chooses to stay knowing everything — and love is the one thing in the world Theodore Drakonis cannot engineer.
A fake-engagement, boss-and-assistant paranormal romance about being seen as more than useful — and the difference between a gentler cage and a real choice. Slow burn, high angst, closed-door clean.
Perfect for fans of:
📚 Sally Thorne's The Hating Game, Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis, and Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound
📺 Bridgerton, The Bodyguard, and Suits
''' The Proposal and Crazy Rich Asians
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Theodore Drakonis runs the money, the code, and the machinery of an empire, and he believes — sincerely — that any problem can be solved with a good enough plan. He has months to bond before an ancient law strips him of everything. He has a network to trace. What he does not have is a contingency for the moment he realizes his own quietly extraordinary assistant is the spy he's been hunting — and his fated mate — and that she has no idea she's a weapon at all.
Emma Lawson is twenty-one and exquisitely good at being indispensable and invisible. She files a harmless weekly report to a staffing agency because it pays for her father's cancer treatment, and she has never once let herself ask why a staffing agency cares so much. She's the one who holds everyone up. She's never learned to inspect the rope.
To pull her out of the trap she doesn't know she's in, Theodore offers the most illogical thing he's ever proposed: a fake relationship. Step into the light on his arm, where the enemy can't touch her. It's a strategy. A contract. A kinder cage. But the bond completes only if she chooses to stay knowing everything — and love is the one thing in the world Theodore Drakonis cannot engineer.
A fake-engagement, boss-and-assistant paranormal romance about being seen as more than useful — and the difference between a gentler cage and a real choice. Slow burn, high angst, closed-door clean.
Perfect for fans of:
📚 Sally Thorne's The Hating Game, Ali Hazelwood's The Love Hypothesis, and Thea Harrison's Dragon Bound
📺 Bridgerton, The Bodyguard, and Suits
''' The Proposal and Crazy Rich Asians
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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