Say I Do, Mr. DuPont: A Marriage of Convenience Romance
She saved a stranger on a dark road. She never expected him to come back.
When exhausted medical resident Elena Carter stops at the scene of a car accident on Redwood Road, she does what she always does: she shows up, she stays, and she leaves without asking for anything in return. She doesn't get the stranger's name. She doesn't keep the heavy gold ring he presses into her palm before losing consciousness. She walks back to her car and drives home and tells herself it was nothing.
It was not nothing.
Three months later, Elena arrives at her fianc 's family party to discover that the man she saved - the man she has been carefully not thinking about - is William DuPont. Head of the DuPont family empire. Her fianc 's uncle. And the most quietly devastating person she has ever been in a room with.
Before the night is over, Elena's engagement is in ruins, her fianc 's secrets are public, and William has pressed the ring back into her hand with a promise: one favor, anything legal, and I'll honor it.
She doesn't plan to use it.
Then her grandmother - the woman who raised her, who is losing her memory to Alzheimer's one window of clarity at a time - asks for one thing before it's too late: to see Elena in a wedding dress.
And Elena does the most reckless thing she has ever done.
She asks William DuPont to marry her.
He says yes like he's been waiting for her to ask.
What follows is a marriage of convenience that refuses to stay convenient - a year of kitchen table dinners and hospital corridors and flowers delivered without cards, of a man who gets on planes without being asked and a woman who keeps closing doors she can't stop finding open. Of a ring that has been looking for its owner for twelve years. Of two people trying to honor a contract that only one of them ever signed.
Say I Do, Mr. DuPont is a slow-burn romance about the difference between the life you build to survive and the life you finally allow yourself to want. About the woman who stopped on a dark road and the man who never forgot it. About what happens when the favor becomes the whole of your life.
And about a grandmother in a lavender dress, in the front row, holding flowers she picked herself.
She came to him as a stranger. He had been keeping something for her for twelve years. Neither of them knew it yet.
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