

Billionaire Ethan Gibson, determined to break the family's curse of ending without an heir, spent a fortune recruiting ten "candidate mothers" and placed them together on his private island. On the day they arrived, Ethan announced publicly: Whoever delivers his first heir will become the future mistress of the Gibson family. Greed grew faster than desire. Within just a few months, several women announced their pregnancies with great pride. However, they and their unborn children were thrown into the ocean and fed to sharks. The reason was simple: they had been found to be involved with other men. Every night, the screams coming from the harbor kept me awake. I was terrified, because I had also had a single accidental encounter with Ethan, and I was now pregnant. When the day finally came and I saw what I had delivered, everything went dark before my eyes. Those mistresses who were fed to the sharks had at least carried human babies. I had given birth to three tiny puppies.

Katelyn clashes with her cheating ex at a fancy restaurant, accidentally splattering Texas brisket on elite surgeon Benjamin. He hires her to pretend to be his fiancée for ten dollars to disrupt his rigid medical family. Her bold, down-to-earth personality melts the household's cold etiquette, cures Benjamin's long-term anorexia, and unravels his trauma over his late brother. As they bicker and bond over homemade barbecue, the fake engagement blooms into genuine love, with Katelyn's secret rich uncle shocking high-society gossips.