Married by Mistake - Book 1

They were supposed to be married for seven days. Neither expected to fall in love.

Elizabeth Carter is in Las Vegas for a professional conference. James Whitmore is there for reasons of his own. One reckless night, a series of bad decisions, and a morning neither of them can quite explain leaves them legally married.

For James, the solution seems obvious: annul the marriage immediately and return to the life he has carefully constructed.

Elizabeth has other ideas.

She refuses to sign the annulment papers before she understands exactly what happened. Instead, she proposes something neither of them expected — seven days. Seven days to determine whether their accidental marriage should simply be erased.

It should be simple.

It isn't.

Because Elizabeth is not intimidated by James's wealth, power, or reputation. She is an organizational-behavior consultant who understands people with unsettling precision. James is accustomed to controlling rooms, negotiations, and outcomes. Elizabeth is one of the first people he meets who doesn't need to be controlled.

As the seven days unfold, their arrangement begins to change.

Then they return to New York.

James is fighting an acquisition attempt that could fundamentally change the company he built. His board is divided, his investors are watching, and a former lover, Wendy Calloway, reappears with information that could damage both his reputation and his new marriage.

Elizabeth becomes involved in the situation almost by accident — and quickly proves that she may be the one person capable of seeing the pattern everyone else has missed.

But Wendy isn't finished.

What begins as an accidental marriage becomes a battle involving corporate power, reputation, manipulation, buried history, and a woman who knows exactly where James is vulnerable.

And somewhere between the strategy meetings, legal documents, New York nights, and increasingly difficult reasons to keep pretending their marriage is temporary, Elizabeth and James discover something neither of them planned for:

The mistake may have been ending the marriage at all.