The Calder Bride Agreement: A temporary marriage of convenience uncovers an undeniable love in Big Sky country

Architect Hannah Calder will do anything to save Aspen Creek House, her family's historic Montana estate. But when a newly unearthed clause in her late relative's testamentary trust demands she establish a marital household to claim ownership, her restoration plans face ruin. Desperate to protect the property from predatory trust terms, she proposes an audacious plan: a strictly business-like six-month temporary marriage. Corporate attorney Nathan Pike arrived in Silver Creek for a routine forty-eight-hour estate closing, fully prepared to return to his detached Manhattan routine. Seeing Hannah's vulnerability-and wanting to shield her from opportunistic local suitors-Nathan agrees to her legal arrangement. The contract is ironclad: cohabitate, keep separate bedrooms, and part ways without emotional fallout when the clock expires. Yet the quiet intimacy of Montana nights swiftly breaches their contractual boundaries. As professional distance melts into shared glances, vulnerable confessions, and heated touch, an unexpected legal alternative arises that could release them both from their vows. With their exit clause suddenly within reach, Hannah and Nathan must decide if their vows were just words on paper-or a promise worth keeping forever.