Six Months to Fall in Love

Emma Carter has spent years protecting Beaumont & Carter Books, the family shop left behind by her father. Then Adrian Kingsley, a billionaire heir trapped by his grandfather’s ruthless estate conditions, offers her an impossible bargain: a legal marriage lasting exactly six months.To save the bookstore from crushing debts and satisfy a probate requirement, Emma agrees to become Adrian’s temporary wife. They will live together, keep their distance, and walk away when the contract expires. At least, that is the plan.Adrian seems cold, controlled, and determined to treat their arrangement like a business transaction. But beneath his careful silence lies a man who has loved Emma from afar, even while believing he must never ask her for anything. As the months pass, breakfast conversations become lingering glances, guarded walls begin to crack, and the marriage neither of them expected starts to feel dangerously real.Then Emma discovers that Adrian secretly paid every debt against her family’s bookstore and placed the property in a trust she alone controls. He never intended to keep her trapped. He wanted her to have the freedom to leave him.But the six-month deadline is approaching, and Adrian’s family is challenging the marriage as a sham. Emma must decide whether she entered the contract only to save her past, or whether she has found a future worth fighting for.Because the marriage was supposed to end in six months.Their love was never part of the agreement.The deadline is coming. Emma must choose whether to leave, or stay because she loves Adrian at last, too.