A CONTRACT MARRIAGE: Marriage of Convenience Was Never Supposed to Become Love

Special Edition Notice: >_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Maya Bennett has spent years fighting for everything she has-her career, her independence, and the right to make her own choices. The last thing she needs is an offer from Evelyn Ashford, the brilliant, intimidating neurosurgeon whose family name carries more power than anyone should possess. But Evelyn has a problem that skill, money, and influence cannot solve alone. To protect the hospital she has devoted her life to, she needs a wife. Maya needs financial freedom. The solution should be simple: a temporary marriage, carefully negotiated rules, separate bedrooms, no romantic expectations, and absolutely no confusion about what either woman owes the other. Except living together has a way of exposing what contracts cannot control. Behind Evelyn's icy precision is a woman Maya never expected to understand. Behind Maya's fierce independence is exactly the kind of woman Evelyn cannot manage, intimidate, or stop noticing. And as rehearsed affection begins to feel dangerously natural, every carefully drawn boundary starts becoming harder to recognize. Because pretending to be married is easy. Pretending not to want your wife may be impossible. A slow-burn sapphic romance of power, vulnerability, desire, and choice-where love must survive not only the rules that brought two women together, but everything that happens once those rules are no longer enough. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ A lesbian marriage of convenience romance becomes a sapphic fake marriage slow burn when a debt-ridden nurse falls for a powerful ice queen surgeon. Their age gap medical workplace romance turns forced proximity into dangerous intimacy, while a contract wife arrangement and forbidden sapphic attraction threaten every rule they agreed would keep love out.