The Tycoon’s Reluctant Wife

A secret wedding. A crushing betrayal. And the one man she can’t afford to trust or resist.

Five years ago Julian Vance broke my heart without a word. He left our secret marriage and left me with a broken soul and an unsigned divorce decree and the painful realisation that I was disposable to his family’s corporate empire.

And since then I have built a life on my own terms. I'm an independent interior architect in the rain-slicked city of Aethelgard, and I don't need anyone. My profession is my stronghold and my independence is my armour.

Until the contract of a lifetime is laid on the table and Julian takes the chair of the boardroom as the new CEO with the lease.

Julian hasn’t forgotten me. He’s larger than life, captivating and utterly uncompromising. In fact, he reveals a bombshell that destroys my carefully crafted world – a legal loophole meaning we're still married.

I must agree to his terrible demand—to save my studio from financial catastrophe and win the historic Riverside Wharf project: three months of forced cohabitation in his high-rise penthouse. A municipal board and a media-loving marriage of convenience.

Under his roof, it means fighting an explosive chemistry that five years of animosity couldn't destroy. Every late nite talk, every inadvertent brush, every possessive glance threatens to bring down my walls. But Julian still has secrets about why he left, and giving in to him again would cost me the ultimate price: my heart.