A billionaire who built an empire to prove his worth.
A PR consultant desperate to save her sister.
A marriage contract that wasn’t supposed to include falling in love.

Grant Blackridge has everything except the one thing investors demand: personal stability. When a scandal threatens his $2 billion acquisition, he makes a calculated decision, hire a wife.

Elise Ward is a brilliant reputation management consultant facing an impossible choice: watch her sister’s illness consume their savings, or accept six months of marriage to a man she barely knows for $800,000.

The contract is clear: separate bedrooms, no emotional entanglement, part ways after six months. It’s a transaction, nothing more.

But living together changes everything.

Morning coffee becomes conversation. Professional distance becomes genuine partnership. And somewhere between the carefully maintained boundaries and the moments they forget to perform, Grant and Elise discover that the most dangerous clause in their contract is the one prohibiting what they’re already feeling.

When an investigative journalist exposes their arrangement, Grant faces an impossible choice: lie to save his empire, or tell the truth and risk losing everything he’s built.

Elise believes she’s destroying his life by staying. Grant knows he can’t survive without her.

One contract. Six months. And a love that was never supposed to be real.

The Clean Contract is a closed-door contemporary romance featuring a marriage of convenience, forced proximity, emotional slow burn, and a billionaire who learns that vulnerability is the ultimate power move. Perfect for readers who love intense emotional connection without explicit content.