A high-powered corporate EVP prefers writing romance novels instead of succeeding his father as CEO in the family business. The irate CEO forces his son into a Contract, jeopardizing his inheritance, freedom, and writing if he fails to become a traditionally published in two years. Stripped of everything, the determined novelist hires a mentor to teach him the writing craft, but her uncertain survival of harsh chemo treatments threatens his deadline, and love, putting at risk the HEA he writes and craves.