Eight Billion Dollar Bride

Zoe Bennett got blackout drunk at her ex-husband's wedding—only to wake up in a $50,000 silk bed, with a beautifully bound legal document on the nightstand: a "60-Day Marriage Contract." She remembered nothing from the night before. The man who walked out of the bathroom—Damien Sterling, heir to the Sterling Group, a top-10 Forbes hidden billionaire—remembered everything. Every detail. Because Zoe would never have agreed while sober. The terms were clear: She plays his wife for 60 days at family events and probate proceedings, in exchange for full debt clearance plus $500,000 cash. But Clause 7 loomed like an electric fence between them: "If either party develops genuine feelings within 60 days, they must pay the other a penalty of $10 million." Whoever falls first loses. When Zoe discovered Damien's real reason for choosing her—she bore an uncanny resemblance to his first love who vanished five years ago—this seemingly simple business deal began to crack open into an unfathomable dark seam. The missing woman was closing in on Zoe's social circle. Damien's own brother was secretly investigating her identity. And her ex-husband, after discovering she'd "married" a billionaire, began obsessively stalking her. In the 60-day countdown, every day was a gamble—betting who would break Clause 7 first, betting who would admit it: The most real thing in this fake marriage was themselves.