What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Unless you marry your boss.
Sophie Carter is a single tank of gas away from total destitution. She's survived six months running the multi-million-dollar schedule of Ethan Blackwell-the ruthless, untouchable corporate titan known as the Ice King-by maintaining a flawless, unshakeable professional boundary.
Until one night on the Vegas Strip.
A blurry, alcohol-fueled celebration ends in a wild penthouse mattress haze and a three-a-m trip to a tacky neon chapel. By sunrise, Sophie wakes up naked in his sheets with a platinum band on her left ring finger.
She flees the suite in pure terror, desperate to play along with Ethan's delusion that his oldest friend hired a high-end blonde stripper to stage a custom prank. But when Ethan stands on the courthouse marble to sign a transactional license with his high-society fiancée, the system flags a fatal error: He's already married. To his intern.
An immediate annulment means a corporate catastrophe for Ethan's empire. To secure his legacy voting shares and launch a mandatory, hostile buyout of his rivals, he needs a legal wife to satisfy a strict domestic stability clause.
The new layout is simple: Stay married for 365 days. Move into his gated estate. Maintain a flawless, united front for the media. No messy complications, no excessive touching, and no emotional attachments.
But outside the office firewalls, the corporate script completely evaporates. Under the white-hot glare of the flashing camera lights, their public performance turns into an addictive, lawless hunger.
The transaction is live-and the ice is about to burn.
COLLATERAL HEARTS is a sizzling, standalone billionaire marriage of convenience romance. It features an efficient heroine with a backbone of steel, a fiercely possessive alpha boss who is highly territorial, and a zero-distance workplace war.
