An Innocent's Deal with the Devil

Billion-Dollar Fairy Tales #3

by Tara Pammi

Can this billionaire resist his ultimate desires? Find out in this illicit romance by Tara Pammi!

An offer she cannot refuse…
Will it cost her everything? 

When Yana Reddy’s former stepbrother walks back into her life, his outrageous offer has her playing with fire! Nasir Hadeed will clear all her debts if she helps look after his daughter for three months. It’s a dangerous deal, she’s been burned by him before, and he remains the innocent’s greatest temptation…

Ruthless billionaire Nasir crushed any feelings he had for Yana long ago. But seeing her bond with his child reignites their forbidden flames. And the undeniable attraction he banished is more powerful than ever…

From Harlequin   Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Read all the  Billion-Dollar Fairy Tales 

 Book 1: Marriage Bargain with Her Brazilian Boss
Book 2: The Reason for His Wife's Return
Book 3: An Innocent's Deal with the Devil

200 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 23, 2024

About the author

Tara Pammi can't remember a moment when she wasn't lost in a book, especially a romance which, for a teenager, was much more exciting than mathematics textbook. Before long, she was hiding romance novels within bigger textbooks, smuggling them into the home through her unsuspecting younger cousin’s school bag, and cycling more than a few miles to her favorite library to borrow more.

Through numerous ‘true’ loves :-) and traveling thousands of miles from family and friends, her attachment to books and especially romance novels stayed constant.

One fine day, toiling away as a grad student in a basement lab, Tara started typing the beginning of a story instead of her thesis. But it wasn’t until years later, encouraged by her real life hero, Tara realized what she truly wanted to do was to write.

Tara lives in Texas with her real life hero and her two little girls. When she isn't writing or reading, Tara can be found failing in the kitchen, watching TV or making resolutions to exercise more, or even a little.

Reviews

[Raffaella · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just no.
Unrequited love. Step siblings.
He marries another woman.
He has a child with his wife.
13 years of unrequited love from the heroine while he treats her like sh..t. He’s also 12 years older so he has no reason for his cruelty.
No apologies because he married another woman. None.
She’s a virgin when they meet again and he asks her to help him with his lil daughter after his wife died. Fy.
Sorry but in this time and age that a woman, a beautiful supermodel, can’t find a decent man with whom she can have a relationship with good sex, and she stays a virgin because she’s in love with the man who has been hating her and debasing her each time he sees her, it’s not conceivable.
Unacceptable.
I refuse to accept that such bs is still being published. I hated the book with all myself. And despised the heroine for being a weak, pathetic, idiot doormat waiting while the hero lives his life without giving up anything. I felt sadness, incredulity and second hand embarrassment.

[Melluvsbooks]

DNF @22% - struggling to like either of these people. Her gambling addiction was the last straw.

[Renée Dahlia · Rating 5 out of 5]

High heat great read with enemies to lovers trope. Lots of tension and good reasons for their misunderstandings and rivalry.

[Stephanie Duerr]

This Harlequin romance surprised me in a good way. I usually brace myself for an over the top, macho male lead, but this one felt refreshingly kind and grounded. The story held my attention, though I did struggle with the character names at times they made it hard to tell who was speaking, which pulled me out of the flow. I also had some issues with the heroine’s choices, particularly not being upfront about her virginity and the implication that she may have been dishonest about birth control both felt like avoidable and frustrating plot points.There were moments of genuine insight, especially the line, “Is it friendship if we only showed up for the good times?” On the flip side, the repeated use of “habibi” as a term of endearment started to wear thin. Overall, an enjoyable read with a few bumps along the way.

[Mattie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I hated it. The hero and heroines dynamic was interesting and would be something I'd want to read about, but I hated that he married and had a kid with someone else, all while being drawn/attracted to heroine the whole time.

I wanted to like the heroine because of her family history, how that made her who she was and how she reacted to things. However I absolutely hated how obsessed with hero she was that she even stayed a virgin, while he married and had a kid with another woman, plus he treated her like absolute trash for almost all the time they knew each other. Also cherry on top he married her friend and she was maid of honor, he even knew it hurt her as it was happening (he recalled seeing pain in her eyes as she stood next to woman he married). Np.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

These two truly hate each other, but hate is the flip side of love. So much bad history and seeing each other in the worst possible way. But they are forced together for 3 months in a castle, so stuff happens

[Harlequin Books]

Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
Billion-Dollar Fairy tales (Book #3)

[Harlequin Books]

Contemporary Romance
Miniseries
Billion-Dollar Fairy tales (Book #3)

[Carmelita Clardy · Rating 1 out of 5]

Hard to finish

This is the last book in the series and it was hard to finish, the plot was boring and the characters were hard to relate to. I didn’t enjoy this series.

[Rich Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was really hard to read. I understand it was a fairy tale, but there was so much bad blood, and the heroine made such poor quality decisions and was generally doormat.