The Inheritance Clause: A Grumpy Sunshine Forced Proximity Romantic Comedy: 1

Eight million dollars. Ninety days. One crumbling Victorian. And absolutely no falling in love.Clementine Vance needs a miracle.Her vintage restoration shop is weeks away from bankruptcy, her landlord wants her out, and her closest confidant is a potted fern named Barnaby Jr.Then an eccentric billionaire dies and leaves her an inheritance that could change everything.Unfortunately, the inheritance comes with Ethan Thorne.Tall, infuriatingly controlled, and obsessed with precision, Ethan is a structural engineer who wears charcoal, measures everything down to the millimeter, and considers bright colors a personal attack.Clementine is chaos in overalls.Ethan is a human spreadsheet.They can barely survive a conversation together. Now they have to survive ninety days under the same roof.To inherit Blackwood Manor and an $8 million estate, they must move into the crumbling Victorian together and personally complete three major renovations before the deadline.If either of them quits, stays away too long, or fails an inspection?They lose everything to a cat sanctuary.Simple.Except Blackwood Manor has one working bathroom, seven minutes of hot water a day, paper-thin walls... and only so much space for two people pretending they don't want each other.Soon their renovation war turns into paint fights.Arguments turn into midnight confessions.Accidental touches last a little too long.And when a freezing bedroom leaves them with only one warm bed, their carefully negotiated boundaries don't stand a chance.But Ethan has spent his life building walls, and Clementine knows better than anyone that people eventually leave.With the ninety-day deadline closing in and Ethan's ruthless father threatening everything they've restored-winning the inheritance might be easier than risking their hearts.Because somewhere between fixing a broken house and falling hopelessly for each other, they may have accidentally built something neither of them expected.A home.THE INHERITANCE CLAUSE is a steamy contemporary romantic comedy featuring: Grumpy × Sunshine - Forced Proximity - Enemies to Lovers - Forced Roommates - Fixer-Upper Romance - Only One Bed - He Falls First - Secret Softie Hero - Witty Banter - Open-Door Spice - Guaranteed HEA