Broken Billionaire Daddy

He doesn't protect people. He owns them.

Scarlett Reeves has built her entire life on the word enough — enough charm, enough hustle, enough caffeine to keep her family business afloat while her father’s health crumbles and the debts close in like a tide. She doesn't ask for help. She doesn't need saving. She especially does not need Nikolai Dravic, the brooding billionaire hero and the most feared man in Manhattan’s financial world, looking at her like she’s a problem he intends to solve.

But the marriage of convenience — or rather, the fake relationship — he offers is too precise to refuse. Six months as his contracted companion in exchange for her family’s salvation. It’s an arrangement too clean for a wealthy hero they say has blood on his suits under the tailoring.

What Scarlett doesn't know: she isn't a business acquisition. She’s a target.

Three months ago, she photographed something at a charity gala she was never supposed to see. The people who want her dead don't care that she doesn't understand the evidence she holds. Nikolai Dravic — a powerful billionaire who is cold, lethal, and incapable of softness — has built an architecture of lies to keep her breathing.

This forbidden billionaire romance isn't a contract. It’s a cage. A beautiful, suffocating, steel-and-silk cage with a protective billionaire inside who looks at her like she’s the first real thing he’s touched in years.

In this steamy billionaire romance, the problem with sunshine is that it finds every crack. The problem with Nikolai is that he knows exactly what she witnessed — and he hasn't told her yet.

When the truth finally breaks in this high stakes romantic suspense, will the man who built a fortress around her be the one thing standing between her and the dark — or the reason she never saw it coming?