Chloe Carter catches her fiancé in bed with her own sister?and walks away without looking back. To save her pride, she impulsively claims a mysterious stranger as her new man and arranges a fake marriage.

There's only one problem: the marriage certificate is real.

Now legally bound to Adrian Sterling, Chloe believes she has found the perfect temporary husband. What she doesn't know is that Adrian is far from ordinary?and their "accidental" marriage may not have been an accident at all.

As family betrayal, scandal, and buried secrets close in, Chloe is about to discover that the most dangerous trap isn't marriage itself... but falling for the man who planned to never let her go.