## What happens when the contract expires — but the feelings don't?
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Lily Mitchell has exactly two things she loves unconditionally — her family's flower shop and her stubborn refusal to give up on either. So when she discovers that the most powerful man in Manhattan has quietly bought her debt and given her thirty days to disappear, she does the only reasonable thing a woman with nothing left to lose would do.
She walks straight into his office and demands a fight.
What she gets instead changes everything.
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**Cole Harrington** doesn't smile for photographs. He doesn't make exceptions, extend deadlines, or feel things he hasn't scheduled in advance. He built a billion-dollar empire on precision, strategy, and the firm belief that emotions were liabilities best avoided.
He has exactly one problem.
His grandfather's legacy clause requires him to be married by his thirty-fifth birthday — and that birthday is in four months.
**Enter Lily.**
Fierce, warm, impossibly stubborn, and standing in his office with a folder of evidence and absolutely zero intention of backing down — she is, inconveniently, exactly what he didn't know he was looking for.
The proposal is simple.
*Six months. A convincing performance. Separate bedrooms. Absolutely no falling in love.*
Her shop gets saved. His inheritance gets secured. Everyone walks away with what they came for.
Simple.
Except nothing about Lily Mitchell has ever been simple.
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## What readers are saying...
*"The slow burn is REAL and I am not okay."*
*"Cole Harrington broke my cold-hearted-hero-loving heart in the best possible way."*
*"I read the Connecticut chapter three times. No regrets."*
*"Lily is everything I want to be — fierce, funny, and completely done with being underestimated."*
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## Inside "The Marriage Clause" you'll find...
A female lead who fights for what she loves without apology and never once needs saving — only choosing.
A hero whose walls don't crumble dramatically but crack slowly, quietly, in ways that will absolutely wreck you.
A slow burn so delicious and so perfectly paced that you'll be turning pages at midnight telling yourself just one more chapter.
A fake marriage that becomes so achingly real you'll forget it ever started on paper.
Banter that crackles. Silences that say everything words won't. Moments of warmth so genuine they'll make your chest ache in the best possible way.
A rooftop garden, a lemon tree, a lakehouse in the rain, and one perfectly placed forehead touch that changes everything.
And a love story that proves the most important agreements were never the ones written in ink.
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## This book is for you if you love...
✦ Fake dating and fake marriage romance
✦ Billionaire heroes with hidden depths and real hearts
✦ Strong, independent heroines who give as good as they get
✦ Slow burn tension that pays off in the most satisfying way
✦ Enemies-to-lovers energy wrapped in contract-marriage packaging
✦ Emotionally rich storytelling that stays with you long after the last page
✦ Happy endings that feel completely, absolutely, beautifully earned
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## A note from the story...
*"I don't want it to end,"* he said. *"The contract. The arrangement."* A pause, and then more quietly, more precisely: *"You."*
This is not a story about a woman who needed a billionaire to fix her life.
This is a story about a woman who walked into a glass tower to fix it herself — and found, entirely by accident and completely without contractual obligation, that the most extraordinary things grow in the spaces you didn't plan for.
**Bloom & Grace has been standing for twenty-two years.**
**Love, it turns out, is even harder to demolish.**
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## About the book
**Genre:** Contemporary Romance Fiction
**Tropes:** Fake Marriage · Billionaire Romance · Slow Burn · Enemies to Lovers · Forced Proximity · Grumpy Sunshine · Independent Heroine
**Heat Level:** Sweet to Warm — emotionally intense, deeply romantic, tastefully written
**Perfect for fans of:** *It Ends with Us* · *The Hating Game* · *Beach Read* · *People We Meet on Vacation* · *Icebreaker*
⭐ **Ideal reading mood:** Cozy evenings · Weekend escapes · Anytime you need your heart filled up
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## Don't let this one sit in your wishlist.
You already know how this feels — the book you almost didn't pick up that ended up living in your chest for weeks. The characters you think about long after you've closed the last page. The story that made you believe, just a little more firmly, in the extraordinary power of two people finding each other.
**"The Marriage Clause" is that book.**
Lily and Cole are waiting for you. The lemon tree is on the rooftop. The lavender is in bloom. And somewhere on a terrace strung with lights in December, a man who never planned for love is on one knee next to a rose named Grace — asking a woman who never needed saving to stay.
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# Grab Your Copy Now and Fall in Love
### *Because the best love stories aren't the ones that go according to plan.*
### *They're the ones that rewrite it entirely.*
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*Read it tonight. Feel it forever.*
