Wifed by a Bandit

Wisdom “Wiz” Hale had always lived by his own rules, a hustler with a silver tongue and a knack for slipping through the cracks. Amari Kassidy-James, sharp-edged and unyielding, had no patience for men like him. Their encounters had always burned fast and faded just as quickly—reckless, temporary, and never meant to last. But when Wiz’s luck runs dry and the law closes in, the only person he can turn to is the woman who swore she’d never get tangled in his mess.

Their solution is a marriage on paper, meant to buy time and protection. For Wiz, it’s a lifeline. For Amari, it’s leverage—an opportunity cloaked in convenience, driven by motives she keeps close to her chest. The union is supposed to be clean, clinical, and temporary. Instead, it detonates every boundary they’ve built around themselves.

From the moment they say “I do,” their lives become a battlefield. Both too proud to yield, too passionate to walk away, Wiz and Amari find themselves locked in a dangerous rhythm of attraction and defiance. Friends and family are dragged into their chaos, alliances fracture, and secrets begin to surface. What starts as a legal arrangement soon becomes an emotional standoff—one neither of them expected to lose.

As the detective hunting Wiz draws closer, the walls between them begin to crack. The marriage that was meant to be a façade starts to feel alarmingly real, forcing them to confront the vulnerability they both despise. In the end, when the lies unravel and the danger comes to collect, Wiz and Amari must decide whether their connection was ever a game—or if, against all odds, it’s become the one truth they can’t outrun.