Convenient Wife Conditions (The Carandini Legacy Book 1)

When Catarina d'Avalos discovers she's been bartered into a marriage of convenience, she does exactly what any self-respecting woman would do—she runs.

Massimo Carandini has spent years reconstructing the Carandini empire piece by careful piece, and a strategic union is the final move on his meticulously arranged board. He doesn't do chaos. He doesn't do surprises. And he absolutely doesn't chase runaway brides—until he does. Tracking Catarina down was supposed to be simple. A quiet conversation, a firm reminder of obligations, a return to the plan. But a brutal snowstorm has other ideas, stranding the cold, controlled billionaire and his infuriatingly beautiful almost-wife in isolated proximity with nowhere to hide.

Catarina isn't interested in a loveless contract dressed up in Italian silk. She wants heat, want, and someone who sees her—not a social asset wearing a ring. So she offers Massimo a counter-proposal: she'll play the devoted fiancée, but only under her conditions. Conditions that require him to stop pretending the electricity crackling between them doesn't exist.

Massimo built his world on control. Catarina is determined to dismantle every last wall he hides behind. What begins as a battle of wills in a snowbound luxury chalet becomes something neither of them bargained for—raw, consuming, and dangerously close to real.

In this world of power and privilege, the most dangerous thing either of them can do is feel something.

*Convenient Wife Conditions* is the scorching first installment of The Carandini Legacy series.