The Marriage Clause by Kenna King

A swoony, forced proximity, marriage-of-convenience romance — all the angst, all the steam, and a guaranteed HEA. Book one of the Kauffman Billionaire series.

ARIA
For six months, I’ve made coffee for the most insufferable billionaire in Seattle.
Everett Kauffman is six-foot-two of custom suits and ice — a man who’s called me redundant to my face and never once bothered to learn how I take my own coffee, let alone how he takes his.
What he doesn’t know is how badly I need this job. And after accidentally eavesdropping on his conversation with his brother… I know too much about something I shouldn’t.
The trust. The deadline. The clause.
If Everett Kauffman, the oldest son of a billion-dollar empire, doesn’t marry by his thirty-fifth birthday, every Kauffman heir loses it all — billions, businesses, the family name — EVERYTHING
He has three weeks to find a bride and I have something to save myself. So I come up with a terrible, perfect, completely insane idea. One year. One contract. And a deal that solves both of our problems.
Easy.
Except Everett Kauffman comes with six brothers, a sister, a city full of gossip columnists, a board of trustees who would love to watch him fail, and an unsettling new habit of looking at me across the breakfast table like he’s trying to remember exactly when this stopped being a contract.
It was supposed to be one year. It was supposed to be fake.
And now, none of those things feel true.