THE BUYOUT BRIDE

A Steamy Arranged Marriage Fake Dating Enemies to Lovers Romance

By: Scarlett Cross, Helena von Heilig

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

He got a marriage contract. She came with secrets she didn't know how to share.

To save his family's company, Gabriel Steele agrees to an arranged marriage with Sophia Rothschild—his family's longtime rival. On paper, it's a merger. In practice, it's two highly competent people sharing an apartment and trying to keep their agreement professional.

That's harder than it sounds.

Sophia is brilliant, private, and not at all what Gabriel expected. She's also carrying information about her aunt's decades-long vendetta against the Steele family—information that could destroy everything they're both trying to protect. The longer she waits to tell him, the more impossible it becomes.

And the more real everything between them gets.

The Buyout Bride is a steamy arranged marriage romance with a corporate thriller undercurrent—complete with fake relationship dynamics, a family conspiracy, and two people who have to decide whether trust is something you earn or something you risk.

The final book in the Steele Brothers series. Can be read as a standalone, but works best after Hostile Takeover of My Heart and Merger After Midnight.

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Trope keywords embedded: arranged marriage, fake relationship ("keep their agreement professional"), forced proximity (shared apartment), enemies to lovers (secret-keeping), slow burn (trust arc)