Damien Moretti doesn’t believe in marriage.
Not for love. Not for convenience.
But when a buried family secret puts everything his family built at risk, he’s forced to say yes to one thing he swore he never would:
An arranged marriage.

Brielle Lancaster is his last resort.
The polished, proud daughter of the man holding the blackmail.
He doesn’t want her.
He doesn’t trust her.
And yet, the longer she’s in his home, the more dangerous she becomes.. not to his empire, but to his control.

Because falling for her was never part of the plan.
But now that he’s started... he doesn’t know how to stop.

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Brielle Lancaster has played her role for twenty-four years .. the perfect daughter, the quiet writer, the good girl.
But when she’s forced into an engagement with the cold, calculating Damien Moretti, everything unravels.
She doesn’t want the penthouse.
She doesn’t want the title.
And she certainly doesn’t want the man who looks at her like she’s a complication.

But behind his walls, she sees cracks.
And beneath the surface, she finds a man fighting demons no one else sees.

She wasn’t supposed to care.
But now she does.
And she’s not sure if it will save her or destroy them both.



THE LIES BETWEEN US

BRIELLE
“Haha, get him!” I laughed through a mouthful of popcorn, ignoring the crumbs that fell onto Damien’s pristine couch.
The movie blared in front of me—some ridiculous action flick where the bad guys were cartoonishly evil and the hero was doing backflips off exploding cars like physics wasn...

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE 

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE 

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ELEVEN

CHAPTER TWELVE 

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 

CHAPTER NINETEEN 

CHAPTER TWENTY

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO