THE BISHOP'S IMPOSTER BRIDE.
Lyra Wells, a fifth-grade Catholic school teacher, comes home from work to find her boyfriend being beaten to death by leather-clad, tattooed street thugs. To save his life, she rashly takes on his debt, earning a terrifying seven-day deadline to pay a lethal sum she could never afford.
But before the day ends, her life takes an even darker turn when they capture her.
Enter Callum Bishop. A ruthless billionaire mafia heir who accuses her of stealing from him. He has security footage to prove it—and she might have, because the woman in the footage looks exactly like her.
Lyra: I have no choice but to sign my life away to a monster. I can't let my family die. But as I step into his world, the clock is ticking. He thinks I am the thief. What happens when my terrifying new husband realizes I have absolutely no idea who the girl is or what she stole?
Callum: I was ready to put a bullet in the head of the person who dared to cross me. But then I saw her and something inside me shifted. She doesn't look like a criminal mastermind who bypassed a million-dollar security system I designed myself. She looks soft, terrified, and completely out of her depth. But the footage doesn't lie.
On the other hand, my dying father is breathing down my neck to take a wife, and I’ll be damned if I let him choose a mafia princess for me. So, I am killing two birds with one stone. I lose the ten million dollars, and in exchange? I get a convenient bride to get my father off my back, and a captive toy to punish for daring to steal from me.