Romance tropes
Fake dating billionaire romance
The public story is love. The private story is a contract. The trouble starts when the two stop agreeing.
Fake dating and fake marriage billionaire romance live on the same fault line. Two people agree to look like a couple for a reason that has nothing to do with love: a company, a will, a family watching from the other side of the room. The performance is the plot. The question is how long they can keep it from becoming true.
Contract Bride is a fake-marriage romance. Isla Adair needs her recycling start-up saved. Callum Rhys, a cold and brilliant investor, needs a wife to satisfy his grandfather's will and keep his uncle away from the family empire. They marry for one year. In public they have to look newly wed. In private there are separate bedrooms and a rule Isla is sure she will never break.
The fourth book in the series, Contract Fiancée, is a fake-engagement romance and is coming soon. Until then, you can read the opening of Contract Bride or buy it now.