Novels by Purple pen

Adriana Bennett has spent three years working for Adrian Blackwood, the ruthless billionaire CEO who seems incapable of smiling, trusting people or saying anything that isn’t strictly necessary. She knows better than anyone that Adrian doesn’t date. So when he suddenly tells his grandmother that he has a girlfriend, Adriana assumes it is another one of his carefully calculated lies. Until his grandmother demands to meet her. Desperate to avoid another Christmas filled with matchmaking and family pressure, Adrian makes Adriana an offer she cannot afford to refuse: pretend to be his girlfriend for three days at his family’s estate. Three days. No feelings and absolutely no crossing the line between employer and employee. But Christmas at the Blackwood estate has other plans. A family emergency turns three days into three weeks, trapping Adriana under the same roof as the man she has spent years trying not to notice. The longer they pretend to be in love, the harder it becomes to remember that their relationship isn’t supposed to be real. Then someone begins destroying Adriana’s reputation. Money starts appearing in accounts connected to her name. Private information about her life reaches the press. The Blackwood family begins questioning her motives, and Adrian’s enemies suddenly have everything they need to attack him. Someone wants Adrian to believe that the woman closest to him is betraying him. “But what happens when the evidence against Adriana is too perfect?” “Can Adrian protect the woman he was never supposed to love without destroying the trust between them?" "And when the Christmas contract finally expires, will Adriana walk away from the man who taught her what it means to be loved or discover that the fake relationship was the most real thing either of them had ever known?"