Lie for Me

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>One night in New York City.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>A heated rendezvous with a deliciously handsome stranger.</em></strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>It shouldn't have ended in marriage.</em></strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And yet here I am ordinary Phaedra Mills standing in the office of my ballet studio two months later clutching at proof that I've been manipulated into a union with the enigmatic and egotistical billionaire Atticus Shaw.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I remember </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>nothing</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> of these supposed nuptials so I decide to confront him at his New York City office determined to put this mistake behind me. Well jokes on me because he's not only expecting me but he's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>elated</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> to see his wife.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Wife.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Atticus expects me to want this to want </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>him</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>. But I refuse to succumb to his inexplicable charm or his primal intensity and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>especially</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> not his disarmingly perfect face.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>So he makes me an offer.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He wants me to lie.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For a month if I play his dutiful wife he </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>might</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> let me out of our marriage.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It's a ridiculous notion and agreeing to it is reckless. But for my future my </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>freedom</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> I have to consider...</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>What's a lie worth?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lie for me is a dark billionaire standalone romance that includes themes which some readers may find triggering. Please read the triggers at the front of the book or on the author's website.</em></p>