The Clause

A clause in a will was never supposed to feel like fate.

Daniel Crane has built his life around control. As CEO of Crane Capital, every meeting, every decision, and every risk is calculated. But when his grandmother's will is read, one condition threatens everything he thought was secure.

He must be married before his thirty-fifth birthday.

Six weeks. One legal certificate. A fortune and family legacy on the line.

Nora Walsh has spent three years as Daniel's executive assistant, managing his office, his schedule, his crises, and the professional distance neither of them has ever dared to examine too closely. She knows what he needs before he asks. She knows how he thinks. And when the impossible condition lands in front of him, she becomes the only person he can ask.

It should be practical.

Temporary.

A clean arrangement with clear conditions.

But nothing about marrying Nora feels simple.

As public scrutiny grows, old assumptions surface, and the line between performance and truth begins to blur, Daniel and Nora are forced to confront the one thing everyone else seemed to see before they did.

The arrangement may have created the marriage.

But it did not create the feelings.

The Clause is Book One in The CEO's Clause series, a premium billionaire CEO romance featuring marriage of convenience, boss and assistant tension, forced proximity, inheritance drama, slow-burn emotion, public scrutiny, and a legal arrangement that becomes impossible to undo.