The LOVE CONTRACT

Sophie Lin has built a steady career as a legal advisor at Hale Group, yet her life is weighed down by a serious problem: her mother needs a kidney transplant that insurance refuses to cover. To close a gap of half a million dollars, Sophie takes on translation jobs wherever she can find them. Then CEO Alexander Hale presents a deal: a one-year marriage on paper in exchange for five million dollars. She haggles hard before moving into his penthouse, convinced it is nothing more than business.

Alexander is bound by a family trust that requires him to marry by thirty-five or hand control to his uncle Victor. Victor, however, is determined to wreck the arrangement. He uses Sophie's mother's charity case as a weapon, makes the contract public, and launches one increasingly dangerous scheme after another. Olivia Vanderbilt, the most influential socialite in Manhattan, also makes her move with a billion-dollar dowry, unwilling to accept that Alexander is no longer available.

As Sophie takes apart each trap with determination and sharp thinking, she starts to uncover a mystery that reaches back seven years: Alexander has been part of her life all along, from sheltering her in the rain to pulling her out of a car crash. For three years he has quietly kept her mother alive with his money. He dressed all of it up as contracts and deals because he never found the courage to say he loved her. When Victor's crimes come apart and his allies turn on him, Alexander gives Sophie one final contract, one meant to last a lifetime, that lets them finally fall in love.