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Twisted and Beautiful
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Expected 12 Dec 25Trust is precious and fragile, but is fortified by love's embrace.
A marriage-of-convience Romance
Shock wasn’t the word to describe what Rosetta Sánchez felt when she looked through her peephole on a regular Wednesday evening. Seeing the man she desperately tried to avoid the night of her best friend’s wedding at her doorstep was the last thing she expected. Shock soon turned into mortification when he asked for her hand in marriage. And she almost fainted when he pulled the five-carat diamond out of his pocket. He proposed something all right – a proposition. A fake marriage. And if she helped him, he’d help her too, with her dreams of having her art in prestigious galleries across America.
It sounded easy enough. Too easy. She was skeptical, paranoid, and downright petrified of the idea of leaving what she had known for the past eight years to move to the city with a man she barely knew. It was insane. It probably wasn’t safe. But his offer and charming smile were too hard to resist.
Voted the sexist man alive three times, Xavier Chan held the record for the world’s biggest ego. Billionaire, playboy, cunning, and devilishly handsome, he had it all. All, except one thing – the crown to the empire that rightfully belonged to him. The one condition his mother had was for Xavier to get married and settle down, proving he could continue the generational wealth she so longed wished for. And while it was going to be hard for him to trust a woman into his life after the betrayal of another, there was something about Rosetta that took his breath away the first time he met her almost two years ago. He hoped she would only twist the truth.
And not the key to his heart.
A marriage-of-convience Romance
Shock wasn’t the word to describe what Rosetta Sánchez felt when she looked through her peephole on a regular Wednesday evening. Seeing the man she desperately tried to avoid the night of her best friend’s wedding at her doorstep was the last thing she expected. Shock soon turned into mortification when he asked for her hand in marriage. And she almost fainted when he pulled the five-carat diamond out of his pocket. He proposed something all right – a proposition. A fake marriage. And if she helped him, he’d help her too, with her dreams of having her art in prestigious galleries across America.
It sounded easy enough. Too easy. She was skeptical, paranoid, and downright petrified of the idea of leaving what she had known for the past eight years to move to the city with a man she barely knew. It was insane. It probably wasn’t safe. But his offer and charming smile were too hard to resist.
Voted the sexist man alive three times, Xavier Chan held the record for the world’s biggest ego. Billionaire, playboy, cunning, and devilishly handsome, he had it all. All, except one thing – the crown to the empire that rightfully belonged to him. The one condition his mother had was for Xavier to get married and settle down, proving he could continue the generational wealth she so longed wished for. And while it was going to be hard for him to trust a woman into his life after the betrayal of another, there was something about Rosetta that took his breath away the first time he met her almost two years ago. He hoped she would only twist the truth.
And not the key to his heart.
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Expected publication December 12, 2025
About the author
Monica Lu
2 books14 followersMonica Lu is a black African-Canadian woman who’s been loving books since the days of reading Dork Diaries. One faithful summer she decided to finally pursue her dreams of publishing her own stories. Her books contain swoony love stories filled with mostly POC MC’s, always pulling inspiration from various childhood favorites. When she’s not fighting her over-planning brain, she’s probably talking someone’s ear off over her latest favorite read.
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