With her mother's treatment payment looming, Elena Hart is desperate and nearly out of money. Wealthy Adrian Vale proposes a fifty-thousand-dollar arrangement: one month at his side for galas, meals, and polished public appearances, with no intimacy demanded and no strings she cannot cut. She accepts to save her family. Yet the kiss she gives him is entirely her choice. As desire turns into something deeper, Elena discovers that Adrian's glamorous world may demand more than either of them planned to pay.