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Engaged by Accident
Paperback
Publisher: Jesse Jaynes
Published: Oct 31 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Megan Ellis has spent years making herself indispensable at the St. Jude Grand Hotel, but an eviction notice gives her just seventy-two hours to find the money she owes. Delivering an urgent legal package to the presidential penthouse should be routine. Instead, she walks into a family confrontation that could determine the future of Reed Enterprises.Alexander Reed, the guarded head of a powerful business empire, is being pressured to marry Julianne Vance in an alliance designed to protect the company. Unwilling to surrender his future, Alexander makes a desperate decision when Megan appears: he takes her by the waist and announces that she is his fiancée. What begins as an arrangement becomes a carefully negotiated engagement, complete with money, legal documents, and rules intended to protect both parties. Yet the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to separate the performance from the feelings neither expected. Megan refuses to be treated as a purchased solution, while Alexander must confront the grief and fear behind his controlling approach to love and leadership.The danger grows as activist investor Carter Hayes and Alexander's brother Marcus prepare to expose the financial arrangement at the glittering Solstice Gala. Megan realizes that women dismissed as decorative or expendable may understand the machinery of influence better than the men who believe they control it. She also begins to see the wounded person beneath Alexander's formidable public armor.When the truth threatens to become a weapon in front of six hundred guests, Alexander tries to protect Megan by arranging an escape and a payment that would free her from every obligation. But Megan will not accept a future purchased on her behalf, nor let Alexander decide that sacrificing himself is the only way to keep her safe. She chooses to face the crisis on her own terms, demanding honesty and equality rather than another contract.In the aftermath, Alexander steps away from autocratic control and begins confronting his grief, while Megan builds a creative future through her own skill and determination. A year later, their relationship has grown quietly, away from cameras and society's expectations. When Alexander finally proposes in her sawdust-filled workshop, he offers neither rescue nor transaction-only partnership. Engaged by Accident is a contemporary romance about unexpected deception, class divides, family pressure, and two guarded people discovering that lasting love can only be chosen freely.
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