A MARRIAGE DEAL WITH THE ENEMY

Her family was destroyed by the Lancasters. Now she's about to become one.

Twenty years ago, Elish Calloway's father lost everything to the Lancaster empire. Eight months later, he was dead. Everyone called it his heart. Elish never believed it.

For two years she has tried to get inside the Lancaster fortress, and for two years every door has stayed shut. Then, at a charity gala, she overhears the one thing she never imagined: Grant Lancaster must marry within six months, or his cousin Pierce takes the company.

A wife gets invited home. A wife can walk into the study. A wife can find the one drawer no outsider could ever open.

Grant isn't fooled for a second. He knew who she was before she ever set foot in the ballroom. But he's out of time, and she's the only woman who wants something from him that money can't buy. So he offers her a contract with one rule underlined in his own hand: no access to the family files.

She signs anyway.

But someone is watching her. Someone has been closing doors before she can even knock. And a pale green cuff button, a torn photograph, and a letter that went unopened for twenty years are all pointing to the same terrifying truth: the two families were never enemies.

Elish came to take the Lancasters apart. She never planned on a husband who makes terrible eggs, remembers every word she says, and might be the only person alive who wants the truth as badly as she does.