He needs a temporary wife. She’s up for an adventure. Neither plans to fall in love.
Venture capitalist Telford Crow has strayed far from his cowboy roots. He runs his life with dogged efficiency.
When his best friend and mentor unexpectedly dies, leaving behind a wild “before forty” bucket list—get married, buy a Montana ranch and launch a non-profit, Telford is determined to realize Cam’s dreams.
Step one: interview the aspiring mail order bride.
Ayana Galloway has spent her life chasing freedom, not forever. After escaping a painful family past, she’s learned to depend only on herself and to never stay anywhere too long.
Taking a friend’s place at a posh weekend interview for an arranged marriage sounds like an entertaining story she can later laugh about.
Instead, she finds herself face-to-face with a broody billionaire cowboy offering her an outrageous proposal: marry him, help him build realistic roots on a Montana ranch, and create a legacy for his friend.
It’s a marriage of convenience with a time limit. And a fat fee. Ayana agrees.
But life under the big sky has a way of changing the rules and neither of them is prepared when make-believe begins to feel dangerously real.
Because the more time they spend together, the harder it is to remember this love story was supposed to be pretend and have a predetermined ending.
