CEO's Fake Engagement: A Dark Billionaire Office Romance

The rules were simple. The engagement was fake. Falling in love was never part of the deal.Claire Donovan is very good at keeping things under control.Her career. Her reputation. Her carefully constructed life in New York.Then everything she has built is suddenly at risk, and the solution comes from the last man she would ever expect to offer it.Dominic Ashford.Billionaire CEO. Brilliant strategist. Her boss.And the man Claire has spent four years refusing to think about in any way that could complicate their professional relationship.Dominic doesn't do relationships.He does strategy.So, when he proposes a temporary engagement, Claire knows exactly what she's getting into: a carefully structured arrangement designed to solve a problem, protect his interests, and end when the contract says it will.There will be rules.Separate rooms. Clear boundaries. No unnecessary intimacy. No feelings.Simple.Until they start living together.Until late-night conversations reveal the man beneath Dominic's controlled exterior.Until Claire discovers that the ruthless CEO everyone fears has a softer side he shows almost no one.Until Dominic starts looking at her like she is no longer part of an arrangement.And until Claire realizes the most dangerous thing about pretending to be his fiancée isn't convincing everyone else.It's convincing herself that she doesn't want to be his for real.Because the closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember where the performance ends and the truth begins.Dominic knows their agreement has an expiration date.Claire knows exactly how many days remain.And when the contract finally ends, they will have to answer the one question neither of them has been willing to ask: What happens when the engagement is fake... but the love isn't?CEO's Fake Engagement is a slow-burn billionaire romance featuring a powerful CEO, an ambitious heroine, forced proximity, workplace chemistry, emotional vulnerability, and a fake relationship that becomes impossible to keep fake.If you love powerful CEOs, ambitious heroines, irresistible slow burns, and fake relationships that turn into something real, step inside Claire and Dominic's story now.Some contracts are meant to be broken. Some are meant to become forever.