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The Trust Fund Bride: An Unexpected Pregnancy Romance
Paperback
Series: Bound by a Baby
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 15 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.85 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A signed contract. A twelve-week deadline. And a billionaire who thinks he can buy everything-except her heart.
Laurel Payne is one overdue bill away from losing everything. A struggling artist in Providence, she's drowning in debt and exhausted from survival mode. So when a lawyer offers her a meeting with the elusive Bartholomew Rogers, she expects a commission.
Instead, she gets a proposal that sounds like madness.
Bartholomew is a man controlled by a legacy he can't escape. To save his family's foundation from a predatory trustee, he needs two things: a wife to prove his stability, and an heir to satisfy a ruthless trust clause. He has money, power, and a plan. What he doesn't have is time.
The terms are simple:
Marry him.
Move into his cliffside Newport estate.
Produce an heir within a strict twelve-week window.
Walk away with $700,000 and her life back.
It should be a cold business transaction. But Laurel isn't the pliable accessory Bartholomew expected. She demands boundaries. She creates rules. And in a house echoing with secrets and sea storms, she forces the controlled billionaire to feel things he's spent a lifetime suppressing.
But when their private arrangement is leaked by a vengeful enemy, the world labels their marriage a sham. With the trust fund on the line and a baby on the way, Bartholomew must decide what he is willing to sacrifice.
Will he fight for the money that defines him? Or will he burn his legacy to the ground to protect the woman who taught him that love isn't a line item?
The Trust Fund Bride is a steamy, high-stakes contemporary romance featuring a grumpy billionaire, a marriage of convenience, and a pregnancy contract that turns into real love. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a hard-won HEA.
Tropes:
Marriage of Convenience
Pregnancy Contract / Baby Clause
Billionaire & Broke Heroine (Class Difference)
Grumpy x Sunshine (with a spine)
Forced Proximity (One Bed/House)
He Grovels / He Sacrifices Everything
Workplace/Contract Romance
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