More Than Pretend

<p><strong>More Than Pretend</strong> is a steamy slow-burn fake relationship romance about a cold-hearted billionaire and the resilient woman who agrees to play his fiancée-only to discover that some lies feel dangerously close to the truth.</p><p>Ryan doesn't believe in love. A brilliant engineer with a frozen heart he's spent his life building walls no one can climb. But when his mother makes one heartfelt request-to see both her sons happily in love before her wedding day-Ryan finds himself scrambling for a solution. He doesn't have time for real emotions. What he needs is a contract... not a commitment.</p><p>Eula is barely surviving. Crushed by debt juggling multiple jobs and clinging to the last pieces of her forgotten dreams she's out of options-until Ryan offers her a deal too tempting to refuse: pretend to be his fiancée and in return get a fresh start.</p><p>But what begins as a carefully calculated arrangement soon spirals into something neither of them saw coming. In Ryan's world of luxury power and guarded secrets Eula must keep up the façade-while fighting feelings that grow harder to fake each day. And as old wounds resurface and sparks ignite the lines between pretend and reality begin to blur.</p><p>Can two people who promised to keep it strictly business survive what happens when emotions break the rules? Or will the lies they built their foundation on come crashing down?</p>