Terms and Conditions
Billionaire needs a fake wife, assistant needs a green card, feelings were never part of the contract
Terms and Conditions is about what happens when you try to contract your way out of vulnerability and fail spectacularly. Declan Kane needs a wife to secure his inheritance, and Iris Taylor needs a green card. What starts as a straightforward business arrangement becomes complicated when spending every day with someone makes pretending feel increasingly real.
Asher writes the marriage of convenience with attention to detail. The contract exists, complete with clauses and conditions, but contracts can't legislate feelings. Every stipulation about boundaries and professionalism becomes a reminder that what they're trying to prevent is exactly what's happening.
What makes it work is the forced intimacy. They're not just pretending in public, they're living together, learning each other's routines, becoming part of each other's daily lives. The fake marriage creates space for a real relationship to grow before either of them notices it happening.
Lauren Asher's Terms and Conditions follows billionaire Declan Kane and his assistant Iris Taylor in a green card marriage that becomes real. The marriage-of-convenience trope explores how contracts can't prevent feelings, with daily proximity and forced intimacy creating genuine connection despite carefully written boundaries meant to prevent exactly that.
Billionaire needs a fake wife, assistant needs a green card, feelings were never part of the contract
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Why readers search for books like Terms and Conditions
You want marriage of convenience that becomes inconveniently real. The satisfaction of watching two people try to maintain professional distance while sharing a home, a life, and eventually a heart. Where every clause in the contract becomes a reminder of what they're failing to prevent.
You're drawn to billionaire romance that adds genuine stakes beyond just money. Not just a rich man bored and looking for entertainment, but someone whose life circumstances create legitimate need for the arrangement. Where both parties benefit and neither is being exploited.
What you're after is the moment someone realizes they don't want the contract to end. The panic of catching real feelings in a fake setup, knowing that confessing could ruin the arrangement and staying silent means living a lie that's become your favorite truth.
The reader take
It's the irony of trying to protect yourself with paperwork and discovering feelings don't care about clauses. That the contract meant to keep things professional just gave you permission to get close enough to fall.
Book recommendations
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
by Mariana Zapata
An NFL player asks his assistant to marry him for a green card. Zapata writes marriage of convenience with slow burn, where the fake relationship becomes real through proximity and patience.
The Spanish Love Deception
by Elena Armas
Workplace enemies fake-date to a wedding and discover that pretending to be in love creates actual feelings. Armas writes forced proximity and the blurred lines between performance and truth.
The Unhoneymooners
by Christina Lauren
Enemies forced to pretend to be newlyweds on a honeymoon find that faking it leads to real attraction. Christina Lauren writes the moment acting becomes authentic.
The Bride Test
by Helen Hoang
An arranged marriage setup where the bride travels to America for a man who doesn't believe he's capable of love. Hoang writes contracts and expectations giving way to genuine connection.
The Takeover
by T.L. Swan
CEO and assistant fake engagement becomes complicated when proximity and performance blur into something real. Swan writes workplace dynamics and marriage of convenience intersecting.
Common questions
Is Terms and Conditions part of a series?
Yes, the Dreamland Billionaires series. Each book features a different Kane brother and can be read standalone, though reading in order adds depth to family dynamics.
Is Declan a typical alpha billionaire?
In some ways yes, controlling, workaholic, emotionally closed off. But Asher gives him depth beyond the archetype, with legitimate trauma and growth rather than just brooding for aesthetic.
How much business versus romance?
The inheritance and business elements drive the setup, but the bulk of the book is relationship development. Asher balances corporate stakes with emotional stakes without losing focus on the romance.
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