A CONTRACT ENGAGEMENT Novel

Nina Taylor moves to New York to escape her father's controlling influence and reconnects with her high school best friend Abby Martin. Desperate to avoid an arranged marriage to Christopher Anderson, Nina believes leaving home is the right choice. However, she quickly finds herself in a complicated situation when Julian Martin, Abby's brother, introduces her to his family as his fiancée without warning. Shocked and confused, Nina discovers she has been given a ring and is now publicly engaged to Julian. Though stunned by the announcement and his family's varied reactions, Nina learns that the engagement is temporary. She agrees to pretend to be Julian's fiancée, convinced she can manage the deception. Yet this fake engagement may prove more challenging than she anticipated, forcing her to confront whether she can truly escape one controlling situation only to enter another.