Wedding Night Deal

Lily Shaw's family is in debt, and the way out she takes is a signed contract. She becomes the contract wife of William Carter, heir to a wealthy family, who is hearing impaired. The arrangement is cold at the start and both of them keep to their side of it. The household around them is not simple. There are internal fights over the family's money and position, and the gap between where Lily comes from and where she now lives is held against her constantly. In the middle of that the two of them become the only place either one is safe. Loyalty comes first, then protection, then something neither of them put in the contract, and the relationship that money set up stops running on money.