The Billionaire’s Reluctant Wife

He owns the debt threatening her family legacy. She may be the only woman who can secure his empire.Elena Marlowe is fighting to save the historic hotel her father left behind when she discovers that its multimillion-dollar mortgage has been purchased by billionaire Adrian Vale.Adrian has the power to protect everything she loves.Or take it away.He also has a problem of his own. A succession clause stands between him and control of the Vale dynasty, and it requires one thing he never expected to need: a wife.His proposal is brutally practical.Twelve months of marriage. Elena's hotel debt cleared. Her ownership protected. No promises beyond the contract.Elena should walk away.But the bargain becomes far more dangerous when she discovers that Adrian's family knew her father and that a decades-old connection between the Marlowes and the Vales may conceal secrets neither of them was meant to uncover.Forced into each other's lives, Elena and Adrian begin to discover that trust is harder to negotiate than money and desire refuses to respect contractual boundaries.Their marriage was supposed to solve two problems.Now they must decide what remains when the bargain that brought them together is no longer the reason they stay.The Billionaire's Reluctant Wife is Book One of The Vale Dynasty Series, an interconnected contemporary romance series about wealth, inheritance, buried family history and the people who discover that love cannot be secured through power.