The Malibu Marriage Arrangement

Ruthless CEO Max Kensington needs a wife at once, or his grandfather will turn major shareholders against him when the Dreamscape merger finalizes and wreck his career over a playboy reputation.

Joseph Kensington chooses Celeste Jenkins, a distracted Los Angeles woman Max would never have picked, and Max intends to endure the marriage only until the deal closes and his title is locked in.

Celeste can barely cover groceries while hospital notices sit beside her mother's chemo medication and Lexi's UCLA film school tuition, so a one-year contract worth two hundred fifty thousand dollars feels like the only way to keep her family afloat.

Forced into close quarters with an arrogant billionaire far out of her league, she still finds herself wanting the man she is supposed to leave.

The longer they share a life built on a bargain, the harder it is to treat the marriage as nothing more than a temporary arrangement.