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Kat Singleton
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Black Ties and White Lies: A Billionaire Fake Engagement

Black Ties and White Lies: A Billionaire Fake Engagement

Life is never black and white. One minute you’re a struggling graphic designer in LA that's finally coming to terms with being single forever, and the next you're flying to New York in a private jet to get engaged to your ex-boyfriend’s older brother. At least...that’s what everyone thinks. Forced to clean up his playboy image in order to protect his company, Beckham Sinclair, the city’s most eligible billionaire bachelor, wants me to be his fake fiancée and personal assistant. Now I'm spending every spare second with a man I thought I’d never see again. My freshly mended heart has barely recovered from the first time a Sinclair broke it. But with each passing day, Beck’s dirty mouth and lingering stares make me question his motives—and mine. As the line blurs between real and pretend, only one thing is certain: there are secrets hiding in this city full of black ties and white lies.
Baca
Chapter: 4
EMMAA loud laugh bubbles from my throat as I take in the stranger staring at me with an unreadable look on his face. “Wow. It turns out you weren’t lying,” I mutter, wondering if I said it for his benefit or for mine.He cocks his head to the side, his sharp jawline now illuminated by the moon. “Lying about what?”“You are stupidly handsome,” I answer, wishing it wasn’t the truth.His lips twitch. It isn’t a full smile, but even though I barely know this man, I could guess that a full smile is hard to earn from him. “You say that like it’s a bad thing.”My hands find my hips as I take another step back, the grass soft beneath my feet. “It’s a terrible thing. The more handsome a man is, the more of an asshole he is, too. It’s a proven fact.”One of his dark eyebrows rises as he watches me closely. God, does he have to be so attractive? His blue eyes are almost piercing, feeling like they’re staring me down right to my soul as he thinks something over.I use the silence to my advantage
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 3
PRESTON“You could at least pretend to be enjoying the welcome party for my wedding,” my sister, Peyton, jabs before taking a sip of her dirty martini.I grunt, my fingers tightening around the beer I’ve been nursing for the past hour. “I’m sorry, P. I’m enjoying it. You know me and parties—they aren’t my thing.”“I remember hearing all about your legendary parties in college,” she quips.Cheers erupt in the corner of the busy bar as her future husband is coerced into taking another shot. She looks at Jackson lovingly, as if he can do no wrong, even though it takes him about five tries to finish off taking a shot instead of swallowing it down in one gulp.Personally, I think my baby sister could do better than a man who wears a collared shirt even to the beach, but she’s madly in love. So, my opinion doesn’t matter. He loves her dearly, and she loves him.I don’t hate the guy; I just don’t love the fact that the next week will be filled with one party after another before their weddin
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 2
CHAPTER 2EMMAMy grip is tight on the handle of my suitcase as I stop in the driveway of Winnie’s Hamptons home. My lips twitch as I look up, a wide smile spreading over my face.“This will do,” I mutter under my breath, gazing at my home for the summer until the Uber driver interrupts me from my thoughts.“Having a party?” he asks, handing me a tote bag with three bottles of wine.I shrug. “Those are for me.”The man quirks an eyebrow, staring me down with a speculative look on his face.I blow out some air, trying to ease the awkward tension. “Don’t judge me, Simon. It was Simon, right?” I add on, worrying that I may have messed up his name.“Yes, it’s Simon.” He turns around to get the rest of my luggage from the back of his sedan.Simon hasn’t been my biggest fan since the moment he picked me up from the airport. I had a luggage carrier spilling over with suitcases as I waited on the curb for my ride. I was supposed to arrive in Long Island hours ago, but due to my flight being d
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 1
CHAPTER 1EMMA“I would say I’m shocked, but I’m actually not surprised at all,” my best friend, Winnie, tells me, her eyes narrowed on me from across the small café table.My nose scrunches as I try to decide if I’m offended by her comment. “Listen. I know I don’t have the best history with jobs, but that one was even more terrible than most. My boss was pushing sixty and kept asking me to do private work at his house.” I take a long drink of my iced coffee, remembering the creepy looks he was always giving me. “Private work at his house can’t be good, Winnie.”She shrugs, nodding as she realizes I have a point. “I could always see if we could get you a job at Bishop-Moore.” Her voice is sweet, and I know she’s just trying to be nice by offering a job at the hotel dynasty she runs with her husband, Archer Moore, but working another job that I don’t have a passion for is the last thing I want to do.With a groan, I sit back in the padded chair of the fancy restaurant she’d invited me
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
In Good Company: An Ex's Brother Billionaire Romance

In Good Company: An Ex's Brother Billionaire Romance

Callahan Hastings is relentless when it comes to getting what he wants, and what he wants is me–to be his private chef in the Hamptons for the summer. My dream job served to me on a silver platter by one of the wealthiest members of Pembroke Hills Country Club. The only catch? He’s my ex-boyfriend’s older brother with a reputation for being as charming as he is cunning. But Cal doesn’t take no for an answer. He draws you in with flirty smiles and extravagant promises. I should have seen him coming, but I didn’t. I should have stayed away, but I couldn’t. His playful touches and burning gaze have ignited a fire in me. The more I resist him, the more irresistible he becomes. I've always known there's an expiration date on the job–an expiration date on us. But leaving isn't going to be easy with Cal on his knees, begging me to stay...
Baca
Chapter: 4
CALI blink a few times, trying to replay Lucy’s response back in my head. I analyze every one of her words, trying to figure out if I heard her wrong. “What do you mean, no?”She crosses her arms across her chest. “It’s a pretty easy word to understand. I mean no. Not happening. Absolutely not.”I frown, wondering why her immediate answer to my proposition is no. She just told me that becoming a private chef for the summer is exactly what she wants.My jaw clenches as I try to figure out how to respond. People rarely tell me no, and because of that, her immediate denial hits harder than I care to admit. “Did you not just say you’d rather be a private chef for the summer over working at Pembroke?”She looks at the ground, making me wonder if this conversation is making her uncomfortable. Her next words are directed toward the driveway as she answers my question. “I said that, but I thought you were asking about your friend Thomas. Not about you. I can’t work for you.”“Why?”She lets
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 3
LUCYI’m delicately balancing a tub of cooking utensils and my bag with additional supplies while I walk out to my car when a shadow pushing off the side of Laurent Hughes’s house takes me by surprise.I stifle a scream. “Oh my God.” I take a deep breath, trying to calm my racing heart. If my hands weren’t full, I think my fist would’ve connected with a face out of sheer panic and surprise.“Need a hand?” Callahan asks, already taking the tub from my grasp before I can even respond.“I’ve got it,” I snap, trying to pull it back against my body.What’s worse is he doesn’t even apologize for coming out of nowhere and scaring me. He lets out a low sound of amusement as he effortlessly tugs my things out of my hands completely.“Callahan!” I yell, watching him walk down the driveway, acknowledging nothing I said to him. “Give me my stuff back.”“Which one is yours?” he calls over his shoulder, pointing to the cars parked neatly up the driveway.Annoyed he’s ignoring what I’m saying, I sto
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 2
TWOCALI knew it was a bad idea to say yes to this dinner party. Laurent can be a raging asshole, which is truly saying something because I know I’m not always the nicest person to be around.I only agreed because my best friend, Jude, was supposed to come with me. The fucker bailed last minute after something came up and he had to unexpectedly return to Manhattan.I stupidly still came, and my night has consisted of listening to Laurent unnecessarily berate his employees and dodging the weird advances of Warren Simpson’s wife as he ogles one of the waitstaff members.I’m staring at my lap, trying to come up with an excuse for why I need to leave the moment after dessert is served, when Laurent clears his throat.“Here she is,” he announces. My eyes move from my lap to Laurent. Meeting the chef for the night might be the highlight of my evening. The food was incredible.“I’d like everyone to meet Lily. You may have seen her waiting tables at the club, but she also cooks on the side.”
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 1
ONELUCYI forgot how much I despised cooking for Laurent Hughes. When he asked me at the last minute to work the private dinner party he was hosting tonight, my first thought was to say no. I needed the money—desperately—but I knew preparing a meal for would come with many challenges.The main one being he might be the biggest douche in the Hamptons. Which is really saying something because this place is filled with pretentious assholes.“When will the food be done?” Laurent comes stomping into his kitchen, his angry voice booming against the walls.I take a deep breath and plaster on a smile, internally scolding myself for agreeing to be his chef tonight. “The main course will be done at the time I told you it would be. I will have the food ready for the staff to bring out at eight.” My words come out rather tight, but they’re still polite. It’s all I can muster when dealing with a man like him.He lets out a disgruntled sigh.My smile remains stiff as I wipe my hands off on my apro
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Founded on Goodbye: A Rockstar Romance

Founded on Goodbye: A Rockstar Romance

His songs were better when he had a broken heart. That sentence would change my life after my dream job was dished to me on a shiny, silver platter. All I had to do? Hurt Nash Pierce enough to get him writing good music again. The pop icon’s songs were no longer the phenomena they used to be. His team needed another breakthrough album—like the first he’d penned, using his heartbreak as fuel. The plan was simple: I’d go on tour with him as a backup dancer…and make him fall in love with me. I was hired to inspire—to become embedded into every lyric he wrote. Then, I was to set fire to it all—to destroy every feeling we hoped he’d develop for me. It seemed simple enough. Easy, even. I didn’t expect to be consumed myself—to see so much in the man displayed in the tabloids. I didn’t foresee falling for him. It didn’t occur to me that, while attempting to break his heart, I might just shatter my own. Most of all, I never thought I’d fight so hard to hold on to a relationship that had always been founded on goodbye.
Baca
Chapter: 4
NASHI groan as I pull sunglasses over my eyes, a headache wreaking havoc on my brain. Looking to my right, I find a mass of people waiting outside the building where auditions are being held. The location we chose was supposed to be secure. Only the people auditioning were supposed to know where they were taking place. But here we are, with a hundred screaming fans outside the door I’m supposed to be walking in.I rub my temples, hiding behind the tinted glass for a few seconds longer. I know I’m late, but I woke up this morning with a raging hangover and no desire to come here at all.The screams outside the SUV window do nothing to help ease the tension in my head. I’m two seconds away from telling my driver to take me back home, to let Monica and anyone else decide which dancers to hire for the tour.But I’m already here. And if I’m going to have other people sharing my fucking stage, I might as well have a say in who it’ll be.Unbuckling my seatbelt, I look over at Sebastian, one
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 3
NORA“Excuse me, what?” Riley shrieks, her voice screeching through my car’s speakers.“Jeez, Riley,” I say, reaching for my dashboard to turn the volume for the Bluetooth down. “You just about busted my eardrum!”A car honks behind me before it whips over into the next lane and speeds right past me. People in LA traffic are so friendly.“I’m sorry, Nora, but you can’t expect me to be silent when you tell me you’re going on tour with Nash freaking Pierce!”“Well believe it,” I tell her. “I have to go to auditions, but it seemed like kind of a done deal.” “Remember us common people on your road to fame,” she jokes, muttering something quietly tosomeone on her end of the line.“By the way, I had to give Nash’s manager all of your info,” I add nonchalantly, hoping she doesn’t freak out.“What?” she screeches, clearly freaking out.“I know, I know. But you were listed as my agent and when she said she’d get in contact with my agent, I panicked.”“What happens when she finds out it’s a to
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 2
NASH“Hell no,” I snap, strumming out a few chords on my guitar to drown out her voice, making it known the conversation is over. Unfortunately, my manager is persistent and doesn’t give a rat’s ass if I’m done with the conversation or not.“It’s already been decided, Nash. I was just letting you know as a formality. Two days from now we’ll be holding auditions for this tour’s backup dancers.”I still refuse to look at her, instead staring down at my guitar, until I see two death trap shoes step in front of me.I sigh, my fingers falling from the fret board as I look up at my manager, Monica Masters. By the look on her face, she’s annoyed by me, but if we’re being honest, that’s the normal look I see from her. “I said I didn’t want fucking dancers. It’s me and my band up on stage. There’s no need for dancers,” I huff. I managed to sell out arenas on my last tour just fine without dancers. I don’t knowwhy she’s being such a pain in my ass about them this time.I’m not doing fucking da
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 1
NORA“Why me?” The question lingers in the air between the two of us.The silence causes me to take a long, nervous pull from my straw, and I swish the water around in my mouth before swallowing.I use this moment to take a good look at the woman sitting across from me. She can’t be much older than my twenty-one years. I’d guess she wasn’t a day over thirty, but it’s hard to tell in Los Angeles.There are so many plastic surgeons out here, she could be forty-two for all I know. Her hair is cut in a short, polished bob, the platinum blonde color of her hair appearing natural.Monica takes a long breath, her narrow shoulders lifting and falling in a fluid movement. I can hear the annoyance in her sigh just before she says, “Why not you, Nora?”Her comment spins in my head. She has a point; any girl would love the opportunity she’s giving me. I’m just not sure I’m the girl to accept the offer.Monica’s phone chimes from where she has it laid out on the table. She says nothing as she pick
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Rewrite Our Story: Best Friend's Brother Second Chance

Rewrite Our Story: Best Friend's Brother Second Chance

Cade Jennings was always there for me when I needed him—until he wasn’t. I’d spent my entire life loving my best friend’s older brother. Every single one of my birthday wishes was spent hoping Cade would finally notice me. And then one day, he did. But not all love stories have happy endings. It's been years since I left the small town of Sutten Mountain devastated and heartbroken. I’d used the pain to fuel a bestselling novel that solidified I’d never have to return. Until tragedy struck, forcing me to face the man who shattered my heart. I thought I’d be strong enough to see him again. I didn’t expect the angry, broken man staring back at me. But the more time we spend around each other, the more I see glimpses of the man I fell in love with. His touch still owns me. His kiss still brands me. And even after all this time, the feelings I have for him still consume me. Cade and I are unfinished business, and this time, he’s not letting me leave until we rewrite our story.
Baca
Chapter: 5
Her words are like a kick in the gut. Years ago, we were in almost this exact same spot when she begged me to listen to her and what she wanted. We stare angrily at each other for a few more seconds before I let out a long sigh.“Get in the damn truck or I’ll put you in there myself. Either way, I’m not fucking leaving without you.”She looks me up and down, as if she’s trying to see if I’m bluffing.I’m sure as hell not. The past few days have been shitty. Adding in the fact that I have to see her again, where we ended things of all places, means my patience is non-existent.To prove a point, I step closer to her.Her hands instantly come between us in an attempt to keep me at a distance. “Fine!” she yells, taking a step away from me. “I’ll get in the truck.”She’s silent as she slides into the seat and closes the door. I get in, yanking my door closed.My fingers tap against the steering wheel. With both of us in the truck, I know I should just shift into drive and go, but something
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 4
CADE - PRESENTMy eyes flick down Mare’s body as she gawks at me in what looks like disbelief. Her gloss-coated lips part as she stares a hole right through my head.I’m not sure I blame her. The last time we saw each other—the last time she saw me—we were standing at this very airport. She’d offered to give me everything she had to give but I denied her. I walked away from her.It seems she hasn’t forgotten how we left things.I haven’t either.“Did that big city steal your voice?” I ask, pulling one of her blonde curls. Her hair is much longer than the last time I saw her. I loathe how much more tamed it looks now that she’s all grown up. Maybe it’s the fact that the carefully styled locks are just another reminder that she left our small town and didn’t look back once. She adapted to city life like it was made for her.Like her place wasn’t at the ranch where mine would always be.Mare scrunches her nose at me. If it’s an attempt at a snarl, she epically fails. It’s much cuter, and
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 3
1MARE - FOURTEEN YEARS LATERWhat is it about airplanes that make people forget about all semblance of personal space?We’ve only just landed on the tarmac when every person next to me stands up, despite the fact we’re at the back of the plane. We won’t deplane for another ten minutes at the very least, yet I’ve got all three passengers from the row behind me leaning over my seat and breathing on me as if huffing and puffing down some stranger’s neck will help everyone else move faster.I’d had to book the flight in the middle of the night after my best friend, Pippa, called me sobbing. There weren’t many choices of seats for a flight at seven the very next morning. I’d had the wonderful luxury of sitting in a middle seat between two strangers; neither adhered to the armrest rules—AKA the person in the middle gets at least one armrest. It's just human decency in my own little humble opinion.The phone vibrating in my lap snaps me from my thoughts. I look down at it, holding it close
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 2
My shoulders shake violently as I try to take a calming breath. It’s something momma taught me to do. In through the nose, out through the mouth. I repeat the motion a few times before my small, shaking hand reaches up to grasp the doorknob. It’s cold against the inside of my palm, causing the hairs on my arm to raise. I pause, waiting to turn it as I peek down at my clothes.Momma would be horrified if she knew I was running around in my nightgown with a cold bite in the air.Too bad Momma isn’t here anymore.I stare at the door, my mind racing with how much things are going to change with Momma gone. Deep down, I know I should turn in the hallway and slip into the room where my best friend sleeps. Pippa could sleep through anything. She probably wouldn’t even wake up if I crawled into bed with her. I could pretend, just for a little while longer, that Momma hasn’t left us.It wasn’t Pippa I wanted—or needed. At the same time, I knew it was wrong to open his door and slip inside his
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-11-16
Chapter: 1
PROLOGUE - MARE - AGE TENHer frail hand is cold and shaky as she moves blonde ringlets from my forehead. She looks so tired as she glances down at me sadly. “Momma’s gonna leave tonight, honey,” she tells me, her voice not quite sounding the way I know it should.“Where are you going, Momma?” I ask, nuzzling deeper into her chest. I’m as gentle as possible, careful not to hurt her. Daddy’s always reminding me that Momma is fragile now. I have to watch my movements around her so I don’t make her feel any pain.Momma sighs. It’s long and drawn out. One of those big sighs I only ever hear from grown-ups. Suddenly, her body begins to shake underneath mine. I look up to see her eyes full of tears.“Don’t cry, Momma,” I beg, carefully pushing off the bed to wipe away her tears. “I’ll go with you so you don’t have to go alone.”Her eyes close as water streams down her pale cheeks. I miss the color they used to be before she got sick—tan with a tinge of pink from the sun from when she’d forg
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