Alya Penn
Luna Alex came to Paris to chase a degree, not a billionaire. A 24-year-old American-Nigerian scholarship student in her final year of Petroleum Engineering at Sorbonne, she juggles exams, an internship, a part-time bakery job in Montmartre, and a sick mother in hospital. She is broke but brilliant, proud, and determined never to depend on a rich man.
Jack Poker Black came back to Paris to bury his father and inherit a €5 billion energy empire. At 30, the new CEO of Black Energy International, he is ice-cold, ruthless, and convinced that love must be earned. He is also grieving, lonely, and fighting a board that does not respect him.
On Luna's first day as an intern at La Défense, she spills coffee on his €5,000 Tom Ford suit and ruins a confidential investor contract in front of the whole executive floor. He humiliates her. She fires back in English and French. From that moment, they are enemies.
When a €500 million Béranger deal requires Jack to look stable and in love, and Luna needs €20,000 for her mother's emergency surgery, he offers her a contract: be his fake girlfriend for 30 days. Rules: no falling in love, no real kissing, no telling anyone.
But fake dates at Versailles, a one-bed villa in Monaco, and Paris Fashion Week make pretending dangerous. When Luna publicly exposes the contract at the Ritz Paris gala, the deal collapses and both lose everything. To win her back, Jack must learn that vulnerability is not weakness — and that love cannot be bought, only proven.
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