Treated as an expendable pawn by her calculating father, Ella Davenport arrives at the civil registry prepared to sign away her freedom to a sleazy creditor. Instead, government clerks inform her that her registry status is already locked in a binding marriage certificate. Her accidental spouse is Cole McBride, the reclusive billionaire chief executive whose corporate empire commands the city's skyline.
Cole suspects an intricate extortion trap and prepares annulment documents, but his ailing grandmother embraces Ella as the family's long-awaited savior. Unable to defy the matriarch's fragile health, Cole reluctantly brings Ella into his luxury manor under a temporary cohabitation pact. As envious socialites scheme to humiliate Ella and expose her background, this accidental partnership turns into an undeniable battle of wits and chemistry.
