To have and to loathe

Killian Fobster, San Francisco's most ruthless billionaire CEO, built his empire on one principle: never commit. His reputation precedes him—a possessive, manipulative force who'd sooner scandal himself on live television than surrender his freedom to any woman. Until his forgotten one-night stand from two months prior arrives with life-altering news that shatters his carefully constructed world.

Hope Sterling is everything Killian isn't: genuine, kind, and wholly unprepared for a man like him. Yet when circumstances force them into an impossible choice, they sign away their futures in a contract marriage designed to be temporary. A sham. A business arrangement dressed in white silk and solemn vows.

What neither anticipates is the fire that ignites between them—the way his possessive nature consumes her, the way her presence unravels his carefully guarded walls. As passion eclipses pretense and betrayal threatens to destroy what they're desperately trying to build, they discover they need each other far more dangerously than either dared to imagine. In a marriage born from deception, love becomes the ultimate betrayal.