Marry Me Under Oath: a Dark Marriage of Convenience Romance with Dangerous Secrets, Forbidden Desire, and Morally Gray Lawyer

Someone is framing me for a crime I didn't commit. Julian Armitage's solution is simple: marry him.Margot Halden knows how to survive a political scandal.She knows how to control a headline, calm a donor, and keep powerful people from turning uncertainty into guilt.But when her restricted archive credential appears where she never used it - and a sensitive file disappears under her name - strategy stops being enough.Someone is building a case against her.Someone who understands exactly how to destroy a Halden.Then Julian Armitage steps in.Brilliant. Controlled. Infuriatingly precise.Julian is the kind of lawyer who believes every problem has a procedure, every risk has a remedy, and every promise means exactly what the language says.So when Margot needs protection from a scandal spreading faster than the evidence, Julian proposes the most dangerous contract either of them has ever drafted.Marriage.Temporary.Strategic.Carefully negotiated.Eleven rules designed to protect their careers, their families, their independence - and especially the truth.It should be easy.Except Margot and Julian have spent eighteen months fighting each other professionally, and neither of them expected hatred to turn into desire quite so quickly.Forced proximity becomes trust.Trust becomes intimacy.And somewhere between legal strategy, midnight arguments, family pressure, surveillance, and a twenty-year-old Saintless secret, their marriage begins to feel dangerously real.But Julian has one flaw Margot cannot ignore.When he believes he knows the best outcome, he has a habit of deciding how much truth everyone else needs.And when the investigation finally gives him the answer Margot has been waiting for, Julian must choose between protecting the operation -and honoring the woman who trusted him enough to become his wife.Because Margot can survive being framed.She can survive scandal.She can even survive falling for a man she once considered her favorite enemy.What she may not survive is discovering that the person she loves decided when she was entitled to know the truth.Marry Me Under Oath is Book Two in The Saintless Society, an interconnected dark romance and romantic suspense series featuring a marriage of convenience, enemies-to-lovers tension, a morally gray lawyer, a powerful heroine, elite family secrets, open-door romance, political scandal, betrayal, and a mystery that deepens across all ten books.Ten families. Ten seats. One rule: never choose love.