Power Play Promises: a Billionaire Hockey Christmas Holiday Romance Crown Elite Book

He needs a wife to secure his inheritance. She needs money to save her mother and build her dream. The solution? A contract marriage with an expiration date.The deal is simple.Knox Ashford—billionaire team owner, ice-cold negotiator, the man who dismissed me in an elevator ten years ago—offers me six million dollars to marry him for one year. No feelings. No complications. Just business.I should say no. I should walk away from the man who once made me feel invisible.But six million dollars pays off my mother’s crushing medical debt. It funds the sports agency I’ve been building in borrowed office space and late-night desperation. It gives me freedom I’ve never had.So I sign the contract.We’ll fake date for the cameras. Wed before Christmas. Play the perfect couple for his dying grandfather. Then divorce quietly after twelve months and go our separate ways.Except Knox isn’t who I thought he was.Behind the billion-dollar empire is a man who makes me tea at midnight, who teaches me to cook pancakes, who looks at me like I’m the only person in the room. A man who’s falling for me as hard as I’m falling for him.But our contract has an end date. And I’ve spent ten years building walls around my heart for a reason.Can a marriage that started as a lie become the realest thing in both our lives?Or will the clock run out before we’re brave enough to admit what we really want isn’t money or inheritance—it’s each other?