On the worst day of her life—left at the altar by her fiancé and stepsister—waitress Ava Harrison’s world goes from ruined to literally on fire. Rescued from the flames is Liam Davis, a fearless firefighter with eyes that haunt her. Desperate to claim her late father’s legacy from her greedy stepmother, Ava accepts Liam’s impulsive proposal: a marriage of convenience.
What begins as a simple contract to secure her inheritance becomes dangerously complicated. As they play house to outwit his controlling, elite family and her manipulative relatives, the line between pretense and passion blurs. Ava doesn’t know that Liam guards two explosive secrets: he’s the hidden heir to a vast fortune, and he’s the masked stranger who saved her from a different fire years ago—a rescue that changed the course of his life.
Now, with past ghosts, present deceptions, and jealous rivals fanning the flames, their paper marriage is about to face its greatest trial. In a world built on lies, can a love forg
