by Lyra Parish
First published 2024
Easton Calloway is furious. He accuses her of stealing, gets her fired, and then shows up with a proposal: be his wife for one year. The man has clearly lost his mind. But the offer sits in front of her anyway. A penthouse in New York City. A spending allowance. Three hundred sixty-five days of playing the happy couple, and then divorce papers and a check arrive in the mail and she walks away clean. For a broke actress scraping by in the city, the math is hard to argue with. She says yes. The rules seem simple enough. Live together, look convincing in public, and do not fall in love. Easton is grumpy, wealthy, and older, which should make the not-falling-in-love part easy. It does not. The closer she gets to him, the harder it becomes to remember this marriage has an expiration date. Lyra Parish's 2024 novel is a marriage-of-convenience romance with an age gap, a billionaire hero, and a happily ever after. It stands alone and includes open-door scenes.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, romantic, steamy, tension-filled
Tropes: age-gap-romance, billionaire-hero, fake-dating, forced-proximity, marriage-of-convenience
Setting: New York City
Period: 2024, Contemporary
400 pages · Paperback · Happily Ever After Ink
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content