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.
