He needed a wife in three hundred sixty-five days.She needed three hundred fifty thousand dollars to keep her father alive.Declan Whitford inherited an empire and a clause that could take it all away.Marry within a year, or watch Whitford Holdings pass to the cousin who's hungered for it since they were twelve.He swore he'd never let a woman that close. He watched his mother sign her name away three times and lose her laugh forever.So a contract. A signature. A stranger with a pen, not a partner with a heart.Lina Hartwood was supposed to be exactly that.A baker with flour in her hair and a dying father in a hospital bed. Stage four. Six weeks, maybe less, without a transplant she can't possibly afford.She signs his contract with both hands.One year. One ring. One performance of a marriage, and her father gets to live.She moves into his penthouse like a ghost. He keeps her at arm's length like a line item.And then she does the one thing no contract accounted for. She gets under his skin.She fills the silence. She names the loneliness he's hidden since he was fifteen. She makes him forget she's a stranger with a pen.Then the blackmail comes home. A loan shark. A secret. A small town with a grudge that reaches all the way to his door.And on the night it all falls apart, Lina looks at the man who bought her and says: "You paid for a wife. You never asked for the truth. So here it is."That's the moment the contract stops being a contract.Now Declan is tearing up the only thing he thought kept him safe.But a marriage that started with a price tag can't be saved with money. And the surgery that could save her father could cost them everything they almost became.If the magnate wants the woman he was never supposed to love, he'll have to risk the one thing he swore he never would. His heart, with no clause to protect it.Bought by the Magnate is a yearning, emotional billionaire romance about a marriage of convenience, fake-marriage-turned-real, small-town secrets, revenge, a guarded hero, and a love worth fighting for.Perfect for readers who love billionaire romance, marriage-of-convenience, forced proximity, grumpy-hero melts, and emotional slow-burn. A standalone romance with a hard-earned happy ending.