The Marriage Clause
READING AGE 16+
What happens when the greatest love story you ever write is your own fake one? Zoe Vance, a ghostwriter for a famous romance novelist, is offered a contract that solves all her problems: pretend to be the wife of reclusive billionaire William Thorne for one year, secure his inheritance, and walk away with enough money to save her late mother’s bookstore. The only rule? No real feelings. It’s the perfect plot until the night Zoe discovers her new husband, celebrated for his cold, corporate designs, is secretly “Wisp,” the elusive street artist whose haunting murals have moved her for a decade. And he’s just uncovered that she is the anonymous blogger behind the melancholic art critiques he’s obsessed with. Now, with a ruthless corporate rival threatening to expose both their secrets and dismantle William’s empire, their contract marriage becomes a high-stakes performance where the only way to save their futures might be to finally make their fiction real.
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The envelope sat on the polished dining table like a time bomb. Zoe stood three feet away, her arms wrapped tightly around herself, as if the room’s climate-controlled air had suddenly dropped twenty degrees. The elegant script of the letter’s final line “discuss the nature and origin of your relationship in detail” seemed to pulse in her visi……
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