She was drowning in poverty. He was paralyzed by grief.

Emily Greene is barely surviving, working multiple jobs to care for her sick mother and seven-year-old daughter. When billionaire Victor Hawthorne offers her an impossible salary to be his caregiver, she can't refuse. Even if the wheelchair-bound recluse treats her like the enemy.

Victor Hawthorne spent five years building walls no one could breach. The last thing he needs is a compassionate woman who sees past his cruelty to the broken man beneath. 

But when his company's board demands they need stability by him getting married or lose everything, he makes Emily an offer, become his wife in name only. Three years. No emotions. Just business.

What begins as a cold transaction transforms into something neither expected. 

As Victor learns to walk again, both physically and emotionally. Emily discovers a strength she never knew she had. But when shadows from his past supposedly return and betrayal threatens to destroy them, Emily must build her own empire and Victor must prove he's worthy of a second chance.

Because real love is never just business.

I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, watching shadows slide across the plaster as moonlight softened into pale dawn. 


Each time I closed my eyes, Lily's face flashed before me...her tears, hurt and confusion. The way she'd looked at me in the gallery, like I was a monster. Like the man who'd  taken her to school had suddenly transformed into something cruel and confusing.


Shame crawled through my chest, heavy and suffocating. I rolled onto my side, then my back again, searching for a position that might ease the weight pressing down on my chest. But there was no escape from it. No comfortable angle that would let me forget what I'd done.


Chapter 25 - Regrets