When my best friend Violet's groom abandons her at the altar, she begs my fiancé Derek to stand in as a temporary husband to save her dying father from heartbreak. He agrees to help her—but hours later, I receive official notification that the marriage license they signed is real. As Violet's mask of desperation crumbles into cold calculation, I discover she manipulated Derek into a legally binding marriage to secure her $20 million inheritance, and California law won't let him escape for six months. But when anonymous texts expose a secret consulting contract and a mysterious woman named Sophia who's been meeting with Derek for months, I realize the betrayal runs deeper than I ever imagined. Now, with Violet's father dead and Sophia walking into the church with a smile that promises devastation, I'm about to learn that I wasn't the only one being deceived.