{ "item_title" : "The Husband She Never Saw", "item_author" : [" Lessandra Canavan "], "item_description" : "The morning Aria Brown got married, she lost her contact lenses.She never saw her husband's face.She didn't need to. It wasn't that kind of marriage.Aria is a nurse drowning in debt, her mother dying, her options gone. When a lawyer calls with an offer - five million dollars in exchange for a contract marriage to a stranger - she does the only thing a woman in her position can do. She says yes, takes the money, and walks out of the courthouse without looking back.She doesn't think about the name on the back of the card.Mason.Three years later, Aria is still paying back every penny. She's moved on. She's moved apartments. She's made peace with the silence. And then her new boss walks through the doors of the care center where she works - deliberate, unhurried, the kind of man the world tends to wait for - and she realizes with cold, perfect clarity that she has never moved on at all.Because Mason Adams doesn't recognize her.But she recognizes him.He is her husband. And he has no idea.What follows is the story of two people keeping the same secret from each other - Aria, who has known for weeks; Mason, who pieces it together over days - and the scheming, irrepressible, eighty-one-year-old grandfather who has been three steps ahead of both of them since the beginning.Thomas Adams heard Aria's voice on a three-year-old voicemail and decided she was exactly right for his grandson. He bought a nursing home. He staged his own care placement. He pretended, for longer than was strictly necessary, to have lost his voice entirely.He is not sorry about any of it.The Husband She Never Saw is a slow-burn, emotionally-driven romance about the cost of protecting yourself from wanting something - and what happens when two people finally, stubbornly, choose each other anyway.Perfect for readers who love: Slow burn romance with real emotional payoffSecret marriage / marriage of convenience tropesA brooding billionaire who kept a voicemail for three years because he couldn't explain whyA heroine who is competent, compassionate, and terrified of being knownA scheming grandfather who is absolutely the best character in the bookHappy endings that feel genuinely earnedShe spent three weeks falling in love with a man she had already married. He spent three years looking for a woman who was ten feet away.Some loves find you quietly. *This one found them both.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/112/9798191122373_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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