Contracted to the Widower
READING AGE 18+
“Wear her perfume. Sleep in her bed. Never speak of the past.”
ELARA is drowning in debt and desperate to save her sister. When the cold, enigmatic billionaire JULIAN VANCE offers her ten million dollars for one year of her life, she thinks it’s a miracle. The catch? She must become his late wife.
She must look like her. Walk like her. And deceive the world into believing the original Mrs. Vance never died.
But Julian is a man haunted by secrets and a simmering rage that burns as hot as his touch. As Elara descends into the dark opulence of the Vance estate, she realizes she’s not just a replacement—she’s a target.
Between the ghost of a dead woman and a husband who looks at her with equal parts hunger and hatred, Elara is about to learn that some contracts are written in more than just ink.
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He came back the next morning.
Same time. Same knock. Two precise raps, nothing more.
I had been up since five. The folder was still on the table. I had not moved it. I had not opened it again either. I had just let it sit there in the dark, the way you leave something you're not sure how to touch.
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