She signed a contract to save her grandmother. She never planned to feel anything. Elspeth doesn't need anyone. She never has. She has a steady job, a quiet life, and rules she doesn't break, until her dying grandmother makes one request she can't refuse. Sign the marriage contract. Meet Aldric Cassel. He is serious, private, and hiding something she can't name. This is supposed to be a marriage of convenience, clean terms, clear boundaries, no feelings. But he notices the things she tries to hide. He makes room for her without asking. And somehow, without either of them meaning to, the distance between them keeps getting smaller. Then the secrets surface. There are people who want this arrangement destroyed. There are things Aldric hasn't told her. And there is a phone call from a doctor in Edinburgh, with results she wasn't expecting. Everything falls apart at once. Can she let herself be loved by a man she is still learning to trust before it is too late?