ONE YEAR AS MRS KINGSLEY

Alexander Kingsley has sixty-eight days to marry or lose the empire his family built to the one man who helped bury its secrets.

Isabella Carter has three weeks to find a miracle before her mother's last chance at treatment disappears.

His offer: five million dollars, one year, one signature, and no feelings. Her terms: the truth, whenever her safety is at stake.

He agrees. He lies.

Because the Kingsley fortune was built on laundered money, bought politicians and dangerous friends, and the secret Alexander is guarding is the reason he chose her. As a trust examiner audits the marriage, as the pretend kisses stop feeling pretend, and as a dead man's sealed instructions begin to unravel, Isabella learns she is no pawn in Alexander's plan. She is the key to it.

When his enemies discover that the coldest man in Manhattan has finally found something he cannot afford to lose, they take her.

They have underestimated them both.