Accidentally Married to a Billionaire - Book 2

Fourteen months ago, Elizabeth Carter and James Whitmore entered a marriage neither of them expected to become real.

Now the billionaire entrepreneur and the fiercely independent strategist have built something neither anticipated: a life based not on dependence, but on choice, trust, and the quiet intimacy of two people who have learned exactly how the other thinks.

Then an offer arrives that threatens to change everything.

Elizabeth is approached about becoming a founding partner in an elite new consulting practice backed by powerful institutional investors. The terms are extraordinary. The opportunity is legitimate. The work would take her career to a level her independent practice cannot easily reach.

There is only one problem.

A carefully constructed conflict-of-interest provision means that accepting the offer could make her marriage to James professionally impossible.

Elizabeth refuses to accept anyone else's definition of her life. But when she begins investigating why the offer was structured this way, she discovers that the situation is far more dangerous than a career decision.

James's greatest creation, the Framework, is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. An old dispute involving a former CFO has left a vulnerability in its intellectual-property history. Richard Hargrove, a powerful private-equity figure who has already tried to acquire James's company, may have found a way to exploit that vulnerability without ever buying the company at all.

And Elizabeth may be the key to stopping him.

As she follows a trail through legal documents, old professional relationships, hidden motives, and a former colleague named Nadia Reeves, Elizabeth discovers that the past James thought he had dealt with is not finished with him.

To protect the Framework, James must finally confront a mistake he has spent years defending.

To protect their marriage, Elizabeth must decide how far she is willing to go into a battle that began before she ever met her husband.

And both of them must learn that loving someone does not mean protecting them from difficult truths. Sometimes it means trusting them enough to face those truths together.

Accidentally Married to a Billionaire: Book 2 is a sophisticated marriage-of-convenience romance featuring a billionaire hero, an intelligent and independent heroine, corporate intrigue, buried secrets, emotional tension, and a marriage that becomes far more real than either of them planned.