Isla Viera

"Have we met before?" Dominic Ashcroft’s sharp gaze pinned her in place, scrutinizing her face like he’d seen it before. Alexis’s heart pounded, but she kept her expression cool. "No, we haven’t." She spent months ensuring that. The dyed hair, the polished elegance—every detail meticulously curated for one purpose. To get close to him. To bring him down. To save Ecosphere, the green-tech company he destroyed. When billionaire Dominic Ashcroft pulled the plug on her startup without warning, Alexis Harper lost more than funding—she lost faith. Now, she’s stepping into his world under a new identity, determined to infiltrate his inner circle, expose his ruthless nature, and make him pay. But the deeper she gets, the harder it becomes to see him as just the enemy. Beneath the cold exterior is a man haunted by past failures, a man whose touch shouldn’t send heat spiraling through her. What she doesn’t know is that Dominic is already onto her. Rather than confront her deception, he plays along, intrigued by the woman bold enough to deceive him. But Alexis isn’t the only one keeping secrets. What begins as a dangerous game of wits spirals into an intoxicating attraction neither of them can resist. The closer Alexis gets to uncovering Dominic’s weaknesses, the more she realizes she might be falling for them. Now, she must decide: stay the course and take him down, or risk everything—including her heart. In a world where ambition and betrayal collide, can love survive the lies? The Pretender and the Billionaire is a high-stakes, slow-burn billionaire romance filled with passion, deception, and undeniable chemistry.