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The Stand-In Bride

When a grieving billionaire learns his grandmother's will hands the family hotel empire to whichever heir is married first, he asks his sharp, perpetually underestimated assistant to be his fake fiancee for ninety days, never guessing she's hiding the one secret that could hand the whole thing to his enemy.

Nora Quinn has spent three years being the most competent invisible woman in the building, running a billionaire's life while hiding that her mother once cleaned his family's hotel and died forgotten. When Julian Ashford's dying grandmother's will hands the empire to whichever heir marries first, he asks the one person he trusts to be his fake fiancee for ninety days. Nora says yes, even though her own secret could hand his enemy everything. The contract says it ends when probate clears. It does not say what happens when the performance turns real, or when the cousin circling them both finally remembers her face. When the truth surfaces in the worst possible room, Nora has to decide whether the man she fell for sees her at all, or only what she can do for him.

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