Initation by R. Collins

Book 1 of 3: The Wild White Orchid Trilogy

James:

My thirty-second birthday is in thirty days, and if I don’t have a wife by then, I’ll be murdered. It’s one of the rules of my secret society—if you don’t have a wife by age thirty-two, you’re dead. The problem is that there isn’t a single woman I want to marry. The only woman I want is Genevieve, and she’s already taken.

Genevieve:

My boyfriend of ten years has just dumped me after cheating on me, and I have nowhere to go. He gave me one week to move out of our apartment, and I need a place to stay. My coworker and friend James asked me to move in with him, but I don’t know if it’s a good idea. Unfortunately, staying with him is the only option I have.