The Heir Arrangement - The Rourke Empire of Vows Series, #1

I was supposed to be choosing flowers for my wedding.

Instead, I found my fiancé in our bed with the woman he swore was nothing.

By the end of the week, she had my ring, my apartment, and the future I thought was mine.

What she doesn't have is the one thing I've wanted for years:
a baby of my own.

I can survive heartbreak.
I cannot outrun time.

Ian Sloane—my boss, a Manhattan hedge fund titan, and the coldest man I've ever wanted to throttle—is not the kind of man who rescues anyone.
He acquires.
He controls.
He wins.

So when he offers me a deal scandalous enough to ruin us both, I know I should run.

A luxury townhouse.
A fake engagement.
And a private arrangement that ends with his name on my fertility paperwork.

For six months, I'll be his perfect fiancée in public while he survives a vicious succession war at Sloane Capital.
In private, we keep our hands to ourselves.
No real kisses.
No sleeping in the same bed.
No falling for the man who looks at me like a promise he has no right to make.

It should have been clinical.
Simple.
Temporary.

Then the rules start breaking.

A kiss for the cameras turns dangerously real.
My ex decides humiliation wasn't enough and comes back for revenge.
Someone leaks our arrangement to the press.
And the night I see two pink lines, I discover Ian has been hiding a clause that changes everything.

Because I was never just his employee.
Never just his fake fiancée.
And maybe never just his donor deal.

I was part of his endgame from the very beginning.

Now I'm carrying a secret powerful enough to hand Ian everything he's ever wanted…
or destroy us both before we ever make it to the altar.