She needed his land. He needed to know if she could be trusted. Neither of them planned on falling in love.
Brenda Cole has one goal: save Sunshine Haven, the orphanage where she grew up and where thirty-one children still call home. A co-inherited land title offers the only path forward but only if she can negotiate with the man who holds the other half: Simon Ashford, a billionaire who has spent years protecting his heart from exactly the kind of woman he fears Brenda might be.
So Simon makes a decision. He will keep his wealth hidden. He will know her before she knows him. And if she is only after his money, he will find out before it costs him anything real.
What he does not count on:
● A woman who turned down a fortune to protect a children's garden
● Tuesday evenings that start as obligations and become the thing he looks forward to most
● The specific, devastating way the truth arrives when you have been carrying a lie
● A thirteen-year-old with a soil science correspondence and opinions about everything
● The discovery that some people's integrity is not for sale at any price
NOT YOUR BILLIONAIRE is a contemporary romance with warmth, wit, and the complicated work of trust. It is the story of two people who find each other through a tangle of legal clauses and personal armor, and who have to decide whether honesty, when it finally arrives, is enough to build on.
For readers who love slow-burn romance, morally complex characters, and love stories that are also about something larger than themselves. Scroll up and begin today.
Tracy Cowell is a novelist with a passion for stories that live at the intersection of the personal and the social, stories about people who are trying to do right by others while learning how to be honest with themselves. Her fiction explores the architecture of trust, the long work of forgiveness, and the specific courage it takes to choose love with your eyes fully open.
She believes that the most interesting love stories are the ones that are also about something else: about justice, or community, or the things we build to outlast ourselves. She hopes you found something in Brenda and Simon's story that felt true.