The Boardroom Vows

She needs forty million rand by Friday. He needs a wife.

Cape Town founder Isla Adair has given four years and every waking hour to Threadline, her small recycling start-up. When the bank calls in her loan, twenty-two jobs are about to vanish. Then cold, brilliant investor Callum Rhys makes her an offer: he'll save her company if she marries him for one year, to satisfy his grandfather's will and keep his ruthless uncle away from the family empire.

Separate bedrooms. A forty-two-page contract. And one rule: no touching in private unless she asks.

Isla will never ask.

But a honeymoon photoshoot with only one bed, a husband who secretly listens to her sing every morning and a fire that was no accident are about to test every clause. Because someone wants this marriage to fail. And Callum is hiding the one secret that could end it.

A steamy fake-marriage romance with a guaranteed happy ending.

He needs a wife within ninety days. She needs a factory built.

Engineer Marli Venter has drawn every line of her dream plant in the Eastern Cape. Nine investors have said no. Then Ruan Rhys, the secret half-brother of Cape Town's most powerful family, offers her a deal: marry him before New Year to meet his late grandfather's will. He'll fund the plant and build it with his own two hands.

Marli writes the contract on a napkin. One year. Separate rooms. No lies, ever. Ruan adds one clause: no pretending in private.

But one farmhouse with one bathroom, a storm that cuts the power and a man who learns her language for her are hard to resist. When a rival board member sets out to prove the marriage is a sham, Marli discovers Ruan has a secret of his own. It could send him to the far side of the world.

A steamy marriage-of-convenience romance with a guaranteed happy ending. Can be read as a standalone.

She trusts nobody. So she married the man she trusts least.

Imogen Carrow gave up her own father to save a company, then lost her good name anyway. Now Carrow Maritime faces a hostile bid from Varenholt Partners and the only shares that can stop it sit in her late mother's trust and they're released only when she marries. The vote is in sixty days.

Dev Chettiar is broke, brilliant and writing the book that could make his career. He needs her story. She needs a husband.

Her contract is typed and precise. Six months. Help her win the shareholder vote and he gets the full interview, with her veto on every page. No touching. No quoting her in private. No falling for the subject.

Then a cottage in Kalk Bay, a stolen draft and the truth about the night before that board meeting test every clause.

A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers marriage-of-convenience romance with a guaranteed happy ending. Can be read as a standalone.

He came to serve the developer's papers. She turned the hosepipe on him.

Mieke Venter has three months to save Doornbos Barn, her wedding venue near Greyton, before a developer's loan swallows it whole. The last man she wants on her side is Pieter Liebenberg, the smug Stellenbosch lawyer who once argued against her cousin's factory.

But Pieter has read the loan and he thinks it's unlawful. He also needs a fiancée: his grandfather will only name him senior partner if he can show a life outside the office and a case taken because it's right.

So they make a deal on the back of a seating plan. A pawnshop ring. Separate roofs. He works every wedding. And nobody in the Venter family finds out.

Then the whole clan invites them both to Bloemfontein for Christmas.

A slow-burn fake-engagement romance with a guaranteed happy ending. The final book in The Boardroom Vows. Can be read as a standalone.