WritingforBeauties
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Maxine Vale has spent her entire life preparing to inherit her father's empire.
Brilliant, ruthless, and fiercely independent, she sacrificed relationships, family, and any semblance of a personal life in pursuit of one goal: taking over Vale Industries. But when her father dies, his final will delivers a devastating surprise.
If Maxine wants control of the company she was born to lead, she must be married and actively raising a child within one year.
Refusing to lose everything she has worked for, Maxine makes a reckless decision in front of an entire room of lawyers and executives.
She claims she's already in love.
With her assistant.
The problem?
Reese Davison has no idea what she's talking about.
A twenty-six-year-old single mother with a young son, Reese has spent five years quietly working for Maxine while staying as invisible as possible. She never expected to become part of a billionaire's inheritance scheme..... let alone be announced as Maxine's longtime partner before she can even object.
Now trapped in a fake relationship neither woman agreed to, Maxine and Reese must convince the world they're a devoted family.
There are only two problems.
Maxine barely knows Reese.
And Reese is beginning to see the lonely woman hidden beneath the ice-cold exterior.
As family pressure mounts, secrets unravel, and a little boy unexpectedly finds his way into Maxine's carefully guarded heart, the line between pretending and reality becomes dangerously blurred.
Because some lies are easy to tell.
The hardest part is surviving when they start to feel true.