My ultimate goal is within reach—but first I need to make her mine. I made it to the top, among the richest of the rich. But I have one more goal in my sights… to become a member of the illustrious Vanguard Society. Being a billionaire is not enough to join their ranks. All I need is one thing to win their trust: A fiancée. When Kat stumbles into me at an elite nightclub, I know that she is perfect for the job. She’s beautiful, smart and feisty—and totally off limits. But she’s desperate. She needs me just as much as I need her. One million dollars is all it takes to make her play along. She agrees to become my fake fiancée. My partner in crime. My plaything. The moment I’m alone with her, the urge to break her becomes overwhelming. It’s all a lie, a contract between us, just for as long as I need her. Hell will freeze over before I tie myself down to one woman. No matter how enticing my name sounds as it drips from her lips when she moans. But Kat is not who I thought she was. And when things take a dangerous turn, I find myself in the risk of losing everything—including her.

I’m richer than the richest, and my voice has the power to override laws. But to get here, I had to push her out of my life. Now she’s back—and she needs my help. Ella Whitt. My college fling, my fiery adventure from the past, the ex who turned into nothing but a piercing regret. Until she resurfaces when I least expect it. She’s still just as brazen, bewitching and excruciatingly irresistible. The same addictive flame that charred me all those years ago. One look and I’m smitten all over again—but she’s in trouble, and I’m the only one who can help her. As a friend, of course, for old times’ sake. Nothing more. Ella can never know about my voracious need for her, because I forbid myself to act on it. And she can never know about the pact I made with my college friends—a pact to find a wife and secure my wealth in my name. Because it definitely won’t be her.