Beautiful Lies

I made a deal with a monster in a tailored suit.

When my father died, I thought grief was the worst thing I’d ever face.

I was wrong.

He left behind dark secrets and a single lifeline keeping my mother alive—our family’s hundred-year-old restaurant.

Then Knox Vale walked into my life and ended my world with a single look.

Cold in his eyes.

Controlled in his movements.

Catastrophic in every way that matters.

Heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire—

and the man my father didn’t just work for…

but betrayed.

Knox owns the loan tied to our restaurant.

With one signature, he could take everything I have left.

Unless I accept his alternative:

Marry him. For six months.

A deal with a beautiful devil.

To save my mother, I agree to his terms:

A legal marriage.

A perfect public lie.

No love.

No lines crossed.

Rules that were doomed the moment he touched me.

Because when I enter his world, everything shifts.

Knox Vale watches me like I’m a secret he intends to unravel.

Touches me like I’m a weakness he plans to exploit.

And when the mask slips, I see a man I shouldn’t want…

yet can’t walk away from.

I thought he’d ruin my life.

I didn’t expect him to rewrite it.