Niall Caden Hawthorne—Cade—lives an exacting, uncompromising life. His only priorities are, and always will be, his family and his business. He'd do anything for them. This includes marrying a colorless, drab moth of a woman who leaves him physically and emotionally cold.



Fern Lambert is everything Cade has never wanted in a woman—timid, sheltered, shockingly inexperienced, and—after a night of uncharacteristically bad choices—pregnant with his baby.



She is also the key to securing an elusive business contract that Cade has been after for nearly a year. Marrying her means giving up three years of his life, it means acknowledging a child that he never planned on having . . . it means complications and disruptions to his well-ordered life.



But Cade knows it's the right thing to do. It's the only thing to do. That doesn't mean he has to like it.

And—inexplicable fascination with her lush upper lip notwithstanding—it certainly doesn't mean he has to like her.