Bound to Billionaire: The Cross Contract: A Forced Marriage Romance of Secrets, Betrayal, and a Love Worth Choosing Twice (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798190728125)

He needed a wife by contract,
She needed a way out of drowning debt,
Neither of them expected to fall in love with the person on the other side of the paperwork.

Damian Cross has sixty days to marry or lose everything his father built... a company, a legacy, and the one thing standing between him and an uncle who's spent fifteen years waiting for exactly this chance.

Burned once before by a woman who was paid to destroy him, Damian isn't interested in love again.
He wants a contract on:
Clear Terms,
A Clean Exit,
Zero risk.

Ivy has spent a decade taking care of everyone but herself: a dying mother, a father lost to dementia, a little brother's tuition, and a diner that's the only thing left of the family she buried.

And what starts as a cold, transactional arrangement slowly becomes something neither of them even wanted at all: late nights that turn into real conversations, small mercies that turn into real trust, a marriage that starts to feel less like a performance and more like a life.

But Damian's uncle isn't finished, and when secrets, forged evidence, and old wounds collide, Damian and Ivy will have to decide whether what they built together was ever real, and whether it's worth fighting for when it would be so much easier to walk away.

Bound to Billionaire: The Cross Contract is a forced marriage romance about two people who learn that love isn't something you have to earn. It's something you choose, again and again, and again and even again.

This book includes:
Forced marriage
- Billionaire Hero
- Grumpy x guarded-but-warm
- Found Family
- Slow Burn
- Betrayal and Redemption Arc
- Angst with a hard-won HEAWritten by Excel Samuel.

Author: Excel Samuel
ISBN-13: 9798190728125
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 08/04/2026
Pages: 418
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.85d