The last private estate in Savannah’s historic district belongs to Evelyn Cross. On the seventh day after her father’s funeral, she is forced to sign a ninety-day marriage contract with a stranger just released from prison—Gideon Shaw. Her father’s will holds an unyielding clause: if she does not marry and remain married for ninety days before turning thirty, the ancestral home will automatically revert to the city government.
The night Gideon moves in, he replaces all the security systems, takes over her father’s study, and opens a hidden underground door Evelyn never knew existed. The man who appears to be an ex‑convict is in fact the silent controlling shareholder of a military‑industrial energy conglomerate worth 120 billion dollars; her deceased father was his longtime secret partner. The contract, the hidden door, the tampered explosion records, the blinking servers in the tunnel beneath the river—the ninety‑day countdown has begun, and the assassin has already made one pass through the estate.
