The Marriage Clause

The courtroom cameras are still live when Mara Voss’s license is ripped from her identity—and Adrian Rook, the memory-bank heir who destroyed her career, presses a marriage contract into her hands. Sign, and she keeps her right to appeal. Refuse, and she disappears from the profession forever. The contract binds their memories, pain, and every secret between them. When Mara discovers someone is reading her dying mother’s final memory through Adrian’s authority, she swears he’s using her—but the closer danger gets, the harder it becomes to ignore the way he shields her. Then Adrian is trapped in a death loop, branded guilty by the corrupt chief judge, and given only thirty days before the city erases them both. To reclaim her name, Mara must expose who rewrote the law—but will she betray Adrian, or take his crime and let the entire city forget the truth?