A marriage of convenience. A deadly secret. And a love ten years in the making.
I never thought offering to marry Colt Thornwood would be the best and worst decision of my life.
When the brooding Alpha rancher faces losing his family's legacy to a cruel inheritance clause, I step up with a desperate solution: marry me. Just for a year. Just to save the ranch. No feelings, no complications.
Except I've been in love with him since I was sixteen.
"This stopped being fake for me weeks ago, Ezra. I don't know when it happened, but I can't imagine my life without you in it anymore."
What starts as a contract becomes something real. Something dangerous. Because someone doesn't want this marriage to succeed-and they're willing to kill to stop it.
Threatening letters. Sabotage. A bullet that grazes too close. Every day brings a new threat, and I'm caught between protecting Colt's inheritance and protecting my own life.
"You think I give a damn about the ranch if it costs you your life? Ezra, you're everything to me."
As Christmas Eve approaches and the inheritance deadline looms, I have to decide: tell Colt the truth about the threats and watch him sacrifice everything for me, or keep my silence and risk losing it all-including my life.
But when his vengeful ex-mate corners me with a gun and forces Colt to choose between the ranch and me, we both learn what we're really fighting for.
"I choose Ezra. I'll always choose Ezra. In every version of this story, I choose him."
This Christmas, love isn't just worth fighting for. It's worth dying for.
A marriage of convenience romance with forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, life-threatening danger, and a cowboy Alpha who'll burn the world down to protect what's his.