It's Just a Contract

A forensic auditor who got fired for telling the truth. A hotel developer who needs a wife by his thirty-fifth birthday. One contract. Two million dollars.

I lost my career at Atlanta's top accounting firm because I wrote an honest audit report. The firm buried it. I got blacklisted. So when Griffin Lowe — the billionaire trust fund baby I couldn't stand in college — offered me two million dollars to be his wife on paper for twelve months so he could unlock a $4.2 million trust disbursement for his boutique hotel on the BeltLine, I did what any broke, blacklisted forensic auditor would do. I read the contract. I rewrote half the clauses. I signed.

The terms were clean. The timeline was simple. Then he started making my coffee every morning without being asked. He kept the original 1923 timber trusses in his hotel because *the bones of a thing are what make it real.* He read every clause I wrote into that contract like it mattered — because I mattered. And I, a woman who built her entire life on knowing the difference between what's real and what's manufactured, couldn't find the line anymore.

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[Contract Fake Marriage Forced Proximity Enemies to Lovers He Falls First BWWM Blacklisted Heroine Atlanta Setting Slow Burn to Scorching Marriage of Convenience]

📖 Standalone with a HEA
🔥 Heat Scorching — multiple on-page scenes
📝 On-page steam, career betrayal, family trust conflict, strong heroine who never begs