The Marriage Clause
READING AGE 16+
What happens when the greatest love story you ever write is your own fake one? Zoe Vance, a ghostwriter for a famous romance novelist, is offered a contract that solves all her problems: pretend to be the wife of reclusive billionaire William Thorne for one year, secure his inheritance, and walk away with enough money to save her late mother’s bookstore. The only rule? No real feelings. It’s the perfect plot until the night Zoe discovers her new husband, celebrated for his cold, corporate designs, is secretly “Wisp,” the elusive street artist whose haunting murals have moved her for a decade. And he’s just uncovered that she is the anonymous blogger behind the melancholic art critiques he’s obsessed with. Now, with a ruthless corporate rival threatening to expose both their secrets and dismantle William’s empire, their contract marriage becomes a high-stakes performance where the only way to save their futures might be to finally make their fiction real.
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The dawn did not arrive gently; it seeped in, a slow tide of pale gray that did little to dispel the shadows in the penthouse bedroom. Zoe stirred, not from restfulness, but from a deep-seated unease that had prickled at the edges of her dreams. Her hand, moving with a sleep-heavy languor, encountered not the cool expanse of empty sheet, but the……
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