Standing Beside Her First

At his older brother's engagement banquet, tycoon Larry Nell shocked the room by taking a bride nobody expected: Coral Baker, an outsider. Rumors of a daring public kiss made the union look like a whirlwind romance, but Coral was actually a hired stand-in playing the devoted Mrs. Nell to keep Larry's moody demands in check. She needed the money, he needed a decoy, and their cold arrangement seemed simple enough at first. Yet with every revised clause, the contract began to crack under feelings neither of them had planned to admit.