The Owner's Reluctant Bride (The Ironclad Dynasty #7)

To keep his team, the widowed billionaire needs a wife.

The only woman qualified to save him refuses to belong to anyone.

Gideon Everett Whitaker has spent decades protecting the Austin Ironclads, his family, and the legacy his father left behind.

Now a buried trust provision gives him thirty-four days to install a qualified spouse as co-steward—or surrender control of the franchise to the cousin waiting to replace him.

Rhea Morgan is the brilliant sports-governance attorney hired to find a lawful solution. Divorced, self-made, and fiercely protective of the firm she built, she knows exactly what happens when powerful men disguise control as protection.

She also knows a marriage can save Gideon’s team—but only if the woman entering it receives real power.

Her terms are nonnegotiable: separate property. Her own career and home. Full veto rights. No publicity obligations. No claim on her body or her future.

Gideon signs every clause.

But as a championship run transforms their calculated agreement into dangerous intimacy, no contract can contain what burns between them. Then Gideon’s oldest instinct—to protect Rhea without her consent—shatters the one boundary she made impossible to misunderstand.

With a hostile ownership challenge closing in and everything Gideon loves at risk, he must prove he can love without controlling. Rhea must decide whether trust can exist beyond a flawless agreement—without surrendering a single hard-won safeguard.

THE OWNER’S RELUCTANT brIDE is a high-heat marriage-of-convenience romance featuring a powerful older hero, a formidable heroine, a fourteen-year age gap, a widowed billionaire, complicated family loyalties, and an emotionally hard-earned happily ever after.

Each Ironclad Dynasty novel features a new central couple and a complete HEA. The continuing dynasty mystery is best enjoyed in series order.