The Rancher's Fake Fiancée

He hired me to play his fiancée for a week. Neither of us planned on the part where it stopped being pretend.

I’m forty years old, broke, and the kind of woman nobody looks at twice.

And I’d made my peace with that. Really!

Then billionaire Loukas Karalis summons me to his ranch with an offer I’m too desperate to refuse.

“I’m about to offer you the only thing in the world you want,” he tells me with a smile as annoying as it’s seductive. “Of course I can ruin it.”

And the offer: one week, one ring, and one glamorous train across Texas where I’m to smile and cling and make every last investor believe I’m madly in love with a man I hate.

Easy.

Except the coldest man in Texas keeps forgetting to be cold when it’s only me. And the longer I wear his ring, the harder it gets to remember I’m only borrowing it.

I swore I’d never be a fool for a man again.

He swore love was a bad investment.

But the closer we get to the end of the deal, the harder I find it to let go. I’m so tempted to ask him the one thing I swore I never would…until the night it all falls apart, and I finally hear what he’s been telling me all along. Loukas doesn’t do love, and he never will. I was just too busy falling to listen.

Note: A slow-burn, later-in-life, fake-engagement, enemies-to-lovers romance. No cheating. HEA guaranteed.