David Vanderlint didn't want a wife. He wanted to stay alive.

He's running from the Saints, the covert government organization that created him. Spying on his own family for people who want them destroyed. Hiding what he is. And running out of time before the Saints close in.

An arranged marriage was not part of the plan. Getting out of it becomes priority number two.

Anna Ryder agreed to the arranged marriage as a desperate long shot. She never expected to actually be chosen. Then, the day before the ceremony, she ended up in a patrol truck she wasn't even supposed to be in and stumbled onto two dozen trafficked women deep in the forest. When she killed the only suspect, unemployment became the least of her problems. Now she's under investigation, a liability no one wants around, and locked into a marriage that was never supposed to happen.

To survive, they agree to pretend. To lie. To stay married just long enough to make their problems disappear.

But nothing disappears. The Saints are hunting. The bodies in the forest connect to something darker than either of them realized. And between the lies they're selling the world and the truths they're hiding from each other, the line between fake and real starts to blur.

Two people running from different monsters. One fake marriage. And a threat that could destroy far more than just them.