THE EX CLAUSE

Five years ago, Nathaniel Cross vanished three days before their wedding, with no explanation and no goodbye. Ava Bennett rebuilt her life without him - and swore she'd never work on anything connected to his name again. Then a mysterious offer lands in her inbox: $180,000 to ghostwrite a reclusive billionaire's memoir. The catch? She can't know who he is until she signs the NDA. It's him. Six weeks, one isolated coastal estate, and a legally binding clause forbidding her from ever asking him why he really left. Ava came to Marrow Point for answers. What she finds instead is a fraud that destroyed her own father's company, a five-year cover-up designed to protect her, and a man who has spent half a decade paying - quietly, alone - for a choice he never explained. The closer she gets to the truth, the harder it becomes to tell where the interview ends and her heart begins. A slow-burn second-chance romance about the lies we tell to protect the people we love, and the courage it takes to finally stop.