About this ebook
supposed to be one of them.
Mara Ellis is brilliant at handling chaos. When events collapse, clients panic, and everyone else runs out of
answers, she is the woman who finds a way through. What she cannot seem to fix is the future of her own
event-production business.
Julian Cross is the opposite of chaos: a precise, fiercely controlled CEO who believes every problem has a plan.
At forty-four, he has little patience for surprises. Then Mara saves a disastrous event at the Bellweather, the
historic Manhattan hotel his grandfather once loved, and an obscure clause in a family trust threatens
everything Julian hopes to preserve.
The clause favors a married heir. Julian is single. The deadline is approaching.
Mara has an unlikely solution: a real marriage with a strictly practical purpose. For Julian, it may be the only
way to protect the Bellweather. For Mara, the arrangement offers the breathing room to build the career she
has always wanted. They agree on boundaries, public appearances, separate expectations, and an ending
neither of them is supposed to regret.
But living together is different from playing the perfect couple for cameras. Between late-night conversations,
unexpected tenderness, and a chemistry neither can schedule away, their carefully negotiated arrangement
begins to feel dangerously real.
When the reason for their wedding finally disappears, the hardest question remains: will they still choose each
other when neither has anything left to gain?
The Unexpected Wedding Situation is a witty, emotionally layered contemporary romance about an age-gap
marriage of convenience, opposites who challenge each other, and the courage to be loved without having to
earn it.
