Twenty Dollars and a Husband

Piper has twenty-two minutes to escape the engagement her stepmother arranged. Her solution? Offer a stranger outside Manhattan’s marriage bureau twenty dollars and half a bagel to become her husband. Wyatt, a mechanic with broad shoulders and inconveniently good timing, says yes. The rules are simple: share her cramped apartment, keep their stories straight, and keep feelings out of it. But diner breakfasts and almost-kisses make their practical arrangement dangerously personal. For a woman used to having her choices made for her, a husband who listens is hard to resist. Then her family threatens Wyatt’s livelihood unless Piper signs away her inheritance. She’s ready to fight for her future. Can their marriage survive the pressure—and the feelings neither of them planned?