THE BILLIONAIRE'S CONTRACT

He has ninety days to find a wife. She has eighty-nine days to save everything her mother left behind.Luca Vale must marry before his thirty-fourth birthday or surrender his voting shares to the enemy threatening his family's empire. The only woman capable of closing every legal loophole is Sloane Hart—the brilliant inheritance lawyer and former friend he abandoned five years ago.Sloane has no intention of trusting him again. But her late mother's historic hotel is approaching foreclosure, and the company trying to seize it is connected to Victor Kane, the dangerous man hunting the Vale family's darkest secrets.Their agreement should be simple: separate bedrooms, independent finances, no emotional expectations and an uncomplicated divorce after twelve months.Then the press begins questioning their relationship.Forced to share Luca's penthouse, survive invasive marital inspections and behave like a devoted couple, they discover that old attraction never disappeared. Every public kiss makes their private boundaries harder to defend.But when Sloane finds her name hidden inside Silas Vale's final will, their arrangement becomes part of a conspiracy reaching back to the deadly Mercer warehouse fire. Someone has been planning their union for years—and will destroy the Hartwell before allowing Sloane to uncover why.Now Luca must prove he can love without controlling, while Sloane must decide whether the man who once abandoned her deserves a place in the future she fought to protect.Perfect for readers who crave an independent heroine, a morally complicated hero, former friends, one bed, slow-burning chemistry, family secrets, threatened inheritance and hard-earned redemption. Luca and Sloane receive a complete, satisfying happy ending while the Ruthless Empire mystery continues.