The Billionaire's Play Thing

Everett Lockwood is Manhattan’s favorite noncommittal nightmare.Billionaire. CEO. Ruthless perfectionist. My boss.

After one humiliating elevator incident, I can’t stand him.

Then he offers me a contract.Play his respectable girlfriend long enough to help secure a billion-dollar merger, and he’ll fund the theater production I’ve spent years dreaming about.

It should be easy.Smile for the cameras.Hold his hand at charity galas.Pretend we’re in love.

Instead, somewhere between late-night conversations and stolen moments away from the spotlight, I discover the man behind the headlines.The one who lost the only woman he ever loved.The one who’s spent years making sure nobody gets close enough to break his heart again.

And somehow, despite every rule we set, he starts to trust me.That’s when everything falls apart.

Because the more real we become, the harder the world pushes back.The press wants a scandal.The board wants results.

And the man who’s finally risking his heart again is letting me in.

But when the contract ends, will his heart survive being broken twice?As I try to prevent my first.