Marriage First, Love Second

Vanessa Hart hated her boss and job. But she was drowning in debt, and the salary she earned as the assistant to the president of Sterling Group was too good to walk away from. After a single incident turns her life upside down, Vanessa finally quit, never imagining that she'd soon be bound to the very man she claimed to despise. Adrian Sterling was powerful, magnetic… and dangerously unpredictable. Beneath his control lay a man driven by strange obsessions and a darkness he kept carefully hidden. When he offered Vanessa a contract marriage in exchange for a life-changing sum of money, she saw it as her only path to freedom. But what she didn't know… was that stepping into his world meant facing a temptation far darker than she had ever imagined. One that would pull her straight into the center of his most dangerous desires… and her own.