The Owed Engagement - A Steamy Silver Fox Billionaire Romance of Fake Engagement and Second Chance Redemption #987535

She gave him her first time. He gave her seven years of silence. Now he wants her wearing his ring.

Maggie Carter has already lost too much to powerful men.

Her ex-fiancé stole her luxury design firm, erased her name from the door, poisoned her reputation, and prepared to sell her most personal resort concept as his own. With her career on the edge of ruin, Maggie expects humiliation when she is summoned to The Pelican House, a billion-dollar coastal resort reopening under the control of one of the most powerful men in South Carolina.

She does not expect Graham Walker.

Seven years ago, Graham was the older, devastating billionaire who made Maggie feel chosen, wanted, and seen. By morning, he was gone without a word. No explanation. No apology. Just silence where her trust used to be.

Now Graham is colder, richer, divorced, and raising his ten-year-old daughter while fighting a ruthless custody battle and a boardroom coup. He knows Maggie’s ex stole from her. He also knows the scandal that drove him away seven years ago was never as simple as it seemed.

So he offers Maggie a deal.

Lead the full redesign of The Pelican House. Live on-site for ninety days. Let him fund the legal fight that could destroy the man who stole her life.

And pretend to be his fiancée.

For Maggie, the fake engagement is a weapon. For Graham, it is a second chance he does not deserve. But forced proximity, old desire, public scandal, and a little girl’s broken bridge drawing begin to expose the truth they both tried to bury.

Because Graham did not leave because he stopped wanting her.

He left because someone made Maggie a threat to his daughter, his company, and everything he was trying to protect.

But protection without truth is still betrayal.

And when Maggie discovers the final secret, Graham must do more than save her career. He must give back the one thing he stole from her seven years ago: her choice.