Hired Wife — Karen Van Der Zee

The marriage charade

Sam Rasheed needed a live-in interior designer to transform his home, and Kim wanted the job. So she convinced him that the infatuated teenager he'd rejected eleven years ago was now a controlled, responsible businesswoman...

But her professionalism was already wavering. She'd only played along with Sam's suggestion of a fake marriage -- "to keep idle gossip at bay" -- in the hope that it would protect her from the unwanted admirers that had plagued her lately. She'd had no idea that she'd still find him quite so irresistible -- or that he intended to keep up the "devoted husband" routine behind closed doors -- in the bedroom!

Hero: Samiir "Sam" Rasheed
Heroine: Kim