Sinopsis

Maya Altun runs a little clinic on the wrong side of the skyline, patching up bodies that the city’s glitter ignores. Haunted by fractured memories of the night her mother died and crushed by debt, she accepts a proposal that looks like salvation: a twelve-month contract marriage to Asher Valen, the unapproachable billionaire who promises enough money to keep the clinic open. No promises, no love—just protection and a clean end date. But the man across the table is colder than she expected, and the signature on the dotted line is only the beginning. Once they’re married, small lies widen into dangerous crevices. Hidden clauses put the clinic’s future at risk, private recordings surface that tie Maya’s mother to illegal trials run in Valen Labs, and a ruthless boardman will stop at nothing to take control of the company—including using Maya as a pawn. As Maya fights to reclaim the pieces of a life she can barely remember, she and Asher edge past pretense into something raw. Every revelation unspools a new betrayal: someone wants her silence, someone else wants her dead, and one man—whose hands are as capable of building an empire as they are of breaking a heart—may be the only person standing between her and the truth. The contract was supposed to end in twelve months. No one counted on secrets long buried resurfacing to demand more than either of them bargained for.