True Lie: A Novel

Ninety Days. No Feelings. She brought a forty-seven-cent pen to an eight-figure meeting. Three years ago, Maya Roberts found a $40 million fraud and reported it. They destroyed her - blacklisted, bankrupted, erased. >Cole Ashford has a forty-seven-page agreement. Physical Contact Parameters. A termination clause. >She says no. Shouts at him in his own penthouse. >He calls her back. The deal says six months. The deal says temporary. >The deal doesn't say anything about the practice kiss that stops being practice. >The slow, terrifying realization that the most dangerous thing in that house isn't the secrets she's uncovering in the foundation's books - it's the man she was never supposed to fall for. Maya always finds the truth. >Someone willing to destroy everything to keep it buried. >He drives to Queens. Tropes: Strategic proximity - Billionaire - Forced proximity - Opposites attract - Touch her and die - He falls first Heat level: Steamy / explicit scenes