LOVING HER WAS NEVER IN THE CONTRACT: A Fake Marriage Becomes Real.: 1 (THE ASHFORD MARRIAGE PACT: A Contract Marriage Romance Saga.) - Softcover

CARROW, ELLERY

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798192745762

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

A fake wife becomes her real weakness when the ice queen surgeon falls first. In an age-gap hospital romance, one bed destroys every boundary, a marriage contract turns dangerously real, and a fearless nurse challenges a powerful heiress—while forbidden workplace desire risks everything.
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Dr. Evelyn Ashford has built her life on precision, authority, and control. But when a corporate takeover threatens the hospital that bears her family’s name, even her formidable influence is not enough to stop it.

Unless she gets married.

Maya Bennett is a brilliant neurocritical care nurse with crushing debts, an uncertain future, and no patience for powerful people who confuse help with ownership. Evelyn’s proposal is outrageous: a temporary marriage, strict boundaries, separate bedrooms, and enough money to change Maya’s life forever.

It is supposed to be a legal arrangement. Nothing more.

But pretending to be devoted wives becomes dangerously convincing when professional respect turns into desire, one hotel reservation leaves them with only one bed, and every carefully negotiated rule begins to feel like a barrier neither woman wants.

Evelyn can protect a hospital, command an operating room, and solve almost any crisis. What she cannot do is control Maya’s heart—or guarantee that love will survive once trust is placed on the line.

A passionate lesbian medical romance about a fake marriage, a powerful ice queen, a fearless nurse, and the terrifying difference between protecting someone and truly loving them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798192745762
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176