She is running out of time.

When Anya’s father is pronounced terminal and refuses further treatment, Anya decides to see his last wish come true. Her plan is simple: marry her boyfriend of three years in her father’s hospital room and get the entire family (extended and adopted) to nudge, plead, and beg him to reconsider the available treatment options. Soon after her plan takes an unexpected turn, she finds out that Zakar Ambrose (tall, dark, handsome, and charming) also desperately needs a wife on short notice.

Insane? Yes.

Was she going to do it anyway? Absolutely.

He refuses to back down.

Zakar has never shied away from a challenge. Ambitious, determined, and petty, he’s jumped through every hoop and passed every test his grandfather could think of to ensure that Clarence has to give him the piece of the Ambrose fortune owed to him or reveal himself as the judgemental jackass that he truly is. It’s a long con, he’ll admit, but now that he has his grandfather up against a wall, all these years of work will finally pay off. All he needs now is a wife. When his original plan falls through, who so happens to show up like a gift from the universe? The beautiful, enigmatic Anya Greene: emotionally compromised and offering to be his contracted wife. A marriage, even a contract one, would be an easy sell to anyone who knows him and even easier to people who don’t. However, Zakar has never been the type of man to seize opportunity at the expense of others. He is, however, a man who knows how to make a deal. 

Easy decision? Yes.

Bound to get more complicated than he can imagine? Absolutely.