THE LONELY MISTRESS

She poured his coffee. He rewrote her life.

Mila Chen came to Milan with nothing but a dying mother's medical bills and a talent for painting no one had ever paid her to use. Alexander Marchetti is the billionaire heir to an empire that owns half the city — and the last man on earth she should fall for.

When Alexander offers her a scandalous arrangement — pose as his girlfriend, save his company from an unwanted merger, and save her mother's life in the bargain — Mila tells herself it's just a job. A performance. Nothing real.

But real is exactly what it becomes.

As their fake romance turns into something neither of them can control, a ruthless rival, a disapproving mother, and a secret Mila never meant to keep threaten to tear apart everything they've built. When the world finds out — and it will — will Alexander choose the empire his family bled for, or the woman who taught him what it actually means to stay?

The Lonely Mistress is a slow-burn, forbidden-attraction billionaire romance about two people terrified of being left — and the love brave enough to prove them wrong.