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Wealth and Kinship #1
The Billionaire's Heart
Self-made billionaire Adam Nicolis has backed away from his pack of friends. He's focused on raising his daughter alone. After losing his wife in an accident, he's barely getting by after two years without her. Finding himself in a situation he can't get out of, he reluctantly goes with his friends on a Mediterranean cruise to the very place he'd run from more than a decade ago.
Zoe Ross has just made a drastic change in her life. Divorced and in a new career, she's excited about the next steps. Being a makeup artist for the performers on a cruise ship should be a fun change and hopefully she'll get the chance to see places she's only read about. She has to pinch herself to make sure she's not dreaming as she boards the huge ocean liner the first time.
When Zoe and Adam run into each other on the ship, there's an immediate connection. Adam is shocked by it and Zoe is more than intrigued by him. When a determined ex-girlfriend shows up to scoop Adam up since he's single again, he knows he has to come up with a plan to get rid of her. His crazy scheme will shock Zoe, yet draw her in for an adventure she'd never expected.
Will becoming Adam's fake girlfriend be her ruin? Or will he end up with the new life he so needed for him and his daughter?
Zoe Ross has just made a drastic change in her life. Divorced and in a new career, she's excited about the next steps. Being a makeup artist for the performers on a cruise ship should be a fun change and hopefully she'll get the chance to see places she's only read about. She has to pinch herself to make sure she's not dreaming as she boards the huge ocean liner the first time.
When Zoe and Adam run into each other on the ship, there's an immediate connection. Adam is shocked by it and Zoe is more than intrigued by him. When a determined ex-girlfriend shows up to scoop Adam up since he's single again, he knows he has to come up with a plan to get rid of her. His crazy scheme will shock Zoe, yet draw her in for an adventure she'd never expected.
Will becoming Adam's fake girlfriend be her ruin? Or will he end up with the new life he so needed for him and his daughter?
182 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 17, 2019
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April Murdock
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November 22, 2023
My Big Fat Greek Family!
Billionaire Adam Nicolos left his parents’ very successful and lucrative business in Greece to pursue his own business dreams in New York. When his four friends (including his brother Silas and cousin Loukas) drag him onto a cruise ship bound for the Greek island of Mykonos for Loukas’s thirtieth birthday party, he’s reluctant; he lost his wife and has a strained relationship with his parents, who didn’t attend his wedding or his wife’s funeral and want him to marry a Greek woman instead of the American he married and lost.
Loukas’s family owns the cruise line, so Adam can board a day ahead of the passengers. That’s when he meets Zoe, a makeup artist who desperately wants children but can’t have them. When his ex-girlfriend Elaina shows up on the same cruise ship (what a coincidence!), he convinces a reluctant Zoe to pose as his girlfriend to scare her off. All that happens is that Elaina digs in harder and speaks poison to Zoe, telling her that she doesn’t belong in her and Adam’s world. Adam disembarks right away and shares a few carefree days on the island without Elaina, but they must go to his parents’ villa for the party.
Before the nighttime party, both Loukas’s and Adam’s parents put on a daytime show featuring a volleyball tournament. Unsurprisingly, Adam is paired with Elaina, while Zoe is paired with Silas. Loukas serves as commentator and is blown away by Zoe’s volleyball performance—she never told anyone about her high school and college team experience. With a sprained ankle and a targeted hit into Elaina’s torso, Zoe wins the championship and the right to dance with Silas first at his “birthday ball”, as Loukas now calls the evening event.
Before entering the ballroom, Zoe overhears Adam’s mother complaining that Zoe isn’t Greek and is after him for his fortune, not realizing that Elaina is the gold digger his mother is accusing Zoe of being. Elaina also hears and whispers to Zoe that it’s obvious that she doesn’t belong. Zoe leaves in tears.
When Adam finds her, Zoe says she won’t get between him and his parents and bows out of their “deal”, knowing it will pain them both. Adam goes back to New York with Abby and tells off Elaina, burning his bridges in Greece.
Two months later, Zach confronts Adam in his office, tells him to stop moping, and talk to his parents. Adam takes his advice and discovers that his parents did come to his wife’s funeral but didn’t go where they’d be seen because they were afraid of being rejected by their son. Adam hasn’t seen them and assumed they didn’t care enough to come. With everything in the open, they reconcile and he asks them an important question.
Meanwhile, Zoe has gone back to New York and has tried unsuccessfully to get a makeup artist job. When she finally lands a gig at a fashion show, she doesn’t know that it’s Adam’ friend Tanner’s show until he’s greeted by one of the models. Adam is with him.
It turns out that the question Adam asked his parents was whether they’d give permission for him to propose to Zoe! She says yes, Abby gets to be the flower girl, and they live happily ever after!
I highly recommend this book.
Billionaire Adam Nicolos left his parents’ very successful and lucrative business in Greece to pursue his own business dreams in New York. When his four friends (including his brother Silas and cousin Loukas) drag him onto a cruise ship bound for the Greek island of Mykonos for Loukas’s thirtieth birthday party, he’s reluctant; he lost his wife and has a strained relationship with his parents, who didn’t attend his wedding or his wife’s funeral and want him to marry a Greek woman instead of the American he married and lost.
Loukas’s family owns the cruise line, so Adam can board a day ahead of the passengers. That’s when he meets Zoe, a makeup artist who desperately wants children but can’t have them. When his ex-girlfriend Elaina shows up on the same cruise ship (what a coincidence!), he convinces a reluctant Zoe to pose as his girlfriend to scare her off. All that happens is that Elaina digs in harder and speaks poison to Zoe, telling her that she doesn’t belong in her and Adam’s world. Adam disembarks right away and shares a few carefree days on the island without Elaina, but they must go to his parents’ villa for the party.
Before the nighttime party, both Loukas’s and Adam’s parents put on a daytime show featuring a volleyball tournament. Unsurprisingly, Adam is paired with Elaina, while Zoe is paired with Silas. Loukas serves as commentator and is blown away by Zoe’s volleyball performance—she never told anyone about her high school and college team experience. With a sprained ankle and a targeted hit into Elaina’s torso, Zoe wins the championship and the right to dance with Silas first at his “birthday ball”, as Loukas now calls the evening event.
Before entering the ballroom, Zoe overhears Adam’s mother complaining that Zoe isn’t Greek and is after him for his fortune, not realizing that Elaina is the gold digger his mother is accusing Zoe of being. Elaina also hears and whispers to Zoe that it’s obvious that she doesn’t belong. Zoe leaves in tears.
When Adam finds her, Zoe says she won’t get between him and his parents and bows out of their “deal”, knowing it will pain them both. Adam goes back to New York with Abby and tells off Elaina, burning his bridges in Greece.
Two months later, Zach confronts Adam in his office, tells him to stop moping, and talk to his parents. Adam takes his advice and discovers that his parents did come to his wife’s funeral but didn’t go where they’d be seen because they were afraid of being rejected by their son. Adam hasn’t seen them and assumed they didn’t care enough to come. With everything in the open, they reconcile and he asks them an important question.
Meanwhile, Zoe has gone back to New York and has tried unsuccessfully to get a makeup artist job. When she finally lands a gig at a fashion show, she doesn’t know that it’s Adam’ friend Tanner’s show until he’s greeted by one of the models. Adam is with him.
It turns out that the question Adam asked his parents was whether they’d give permission for him to propose to Zoe! She says yes, Abby gets to be the flower girl, and they live happily ever after!
I highly recommend this book.
November 6, 2021
The Billionaire’s Heart
This book is a story of a young Greek man and his daughter after the death of his wife. Adam left Greece because he wanted to be his own person and not someone his parents had raised and pushed into their way of life. His marriage to an American and the birth of his daughter taught him a lot until he last his wife to a car accident. The story is a great story of love and loss and how to make things work and move on. This is my review and mine alone. Norma Gorrill
This book is a story of a young Greek man and his daughter after the death of his wife. Adam left Greece because he wanted to be his own person and not someone his parents had raised and pushed into their way of life. His marriage to an American and the birth of his daughter taught him a lot until he last his wife to a car accident. The story is a great story of love and loss and how to make things work and move on. This is my review and mine alone. Norma Gorrill
December 7, 2021
The Billionaires Heart: A Clean and Wholesome Single Dad Romance (Wealth and Kinship Book 1)
Adam and Zoe meet and they are really into each other. Adam is a rich single dad of Abby. His wife died two years ago when Abby was 3 years old. He has totally given up on doing anything but work and taking care of his daughter. Zoe is divorced and was a teacher but gave it up when she couldn't have kids and became a makeup artist. They both become enamored with each other. His friends and family are against them being together.
Adam and Zoe meet and they are really into each other. Adam is a rich single dad of Abby. His wife died two years ago when Abby was 3 years old. He has totally given up on doing anything but work and taking care of his daughter. Zoe is divorced and was a teacher but gave it up when she couldn't have kids and became a makeup artist. They both become enamored with each other. His friends and family are against them being together.
June 8, 2023
My first billionaire romance, so perhaps I just can't get into this genre. It all seems shallow to me. Would've liked getting to know the main characters better. Personally dislike it when ex's show up and ruin everything, especially so maliciously. The concept of the story was good, and I enjoyed how things turned around in the end, especially with his family. I appreciate finding a clean book in this genre, and how it stayed modern and also respectable. But I would've liked a few details about the kisses.
June 30, 2025
It was a good book with the fact that it included the rest of the people from the first books, I liked that the model was able to stand up to him when he was trying to be a jerk, like on the plane ride to the modeling site. It showed her passion for her son and her family, which I really thought was something that he did not know about to begin with. I liked also how the others stood beside her in a very kind way and wanted to know about her. Then when the fake marriage was brought to them as a business deal that was a surprise. She and he handled it will to begin with but she saw she was falling for him and then over heard his comments and felt bad, she chose to leave instead of confront him, leaving him to realize what a mistake he was making. He found out about her son and took measures to help by going to see if he could match what was needed for the operation that was needed, making him the hero and getting the woman he so wanted..
September 12, 2021
thought I’d like - wrong!
This is a 30 year old woman who becomes stupid when a good looking man talks to her. She agrees to be his girlfriend for two weeks so he can hopefully avoid a wanna be girlfriend. Wanna be shows up at h’s cabin door and h gets strong armed by the wanna be. Seriously - how can she be portrayed as strong when she can’t even tell the wanna be “no”. No backbone on this lady. 50% through and I’m not sure I care how it ends. Actually, I know how it’s going to end but I don’t think I want to make the journey with these people.
This is a 30 year old woman who becomes stupid when a good looking man talks to her. She agrees to be his girlfriend for two weeks so he can hopefully avoid a wanna be girlfriend. Wanna be shows up at h’s cabin door and h gets strong armed by the wanna be. Seriously - how can she be portrayed as strong when she can’t even tell the wanna be “no”. No backbone on this lady. 50% through and I’m not sure I care how it ends. Actually, I know how it’s going to end but I don’t think I want to make the journey with these people.
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June 15, 2021Not impressed
I almost stopped reading this book about 20% in but kept pushing forward hoping it would get better. It never did! There were no true feelings shared - just lots of dialogue. It was certainly lacking of feeling and emotion and very disappointing. I would not recommend it.
I almost stopped reading this book about 20% in but kept pushing forward hoping it would get better. It never did! There were no true feelings shared - just lots of dialogue. It was certainly lacking of feeling and emotion and very disappointing. I would not recommend it.
December 8, 2021
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He’s a widower that has stopped seeing family and friends. The friends book a vacation and they sail on a cruise ship an ex girlfriend shows up, he’s not interested and hires the makeup woman to be his girlfriend. Surprise that the two fall in love but the path to marriage is a rocky road.
He’s a widower that has stopped seeing family and friends. The friends book a vacation and they sail on a cruise ship an ex girlfriend shows up, he’s not interested and hires the makeup woman to be his girlfriend. Surprise that the two fall in love but the path to marriage is a rocky road.
March 18, 2022
Quick easy read. Story is about misunderstanding between, controlling parents because of lack of communication.
Over coming a great loss and moving forward to find love you never thought you would have again, and reuniting with parents
It's a story of strong friendships, big families and love over coming difficulties.
Over coming a great loss and moving forward to find love you never thought you would have again, and reuniting with parents
It's a story of strong friendships, big families and love over coming difficulties.
March 7, 2023
Cool
It is adventure your life implodes, A wife dies and Adam is destroyed, his daughter is being strong for but not really living his friends do an intervention. Along comes Zoe, who after a divorce and unable to have a child is reinventing herself, they find each other and the next adventure begins.
It is adventure your life implodes, A wife dies and Adam is destroyed, his daughter is being strong for but not really living his friends do an intervention. Along comes Zoe, who after a divorce and unable to have a child is reinventing herself, they find each other and the next adventure begins.
July 9, 2023
Adam Nicolis is a single dad with a daughter named Abby. His wife died in an accident. He is estranged from his family in Greece. He lives in New York. He meets Zoe Ross when he agrees to go to Greece on a cruise ship owned by his brother. The story was well written and had short chapters, the best kind in my opinion. Highly recommended.
May 21, 2020
Very interesting book
Adam has a lot of hurt in his life that he is trying to adjust to. Meeting up with Zoe on a cruise,just might help him out. Read this book to see how things work out.
Adam has a lot of hurt in his life that he is trying to adjust to. Meeting up with Zoe on a cruise,just might help him out. Read this book to see how things work out.
October 23, 2021
This is a really sweet story about two people meeting that come from very different backgrounds. I enjoyed the relationship of Zoe and Adam at it progressed. I loved little Abbey as well. This is a fun, super sweet clean romance.
December 3, 2021
Heart warming
This is the first time that I read a book from @April Murdock and i was not disappointed I could feel the pain in Adams' life the struggle in his life for his love for his daughter and the broken relationship with his family but then Zoe happen?
This is the first time that I read a book from @April Murdock and i was not disappointed I could feel the pain in Adams' life the struggle in his life for his love for his daughter and the broken relationship with his family but then Zoe happen?
December 7, 2021
So much more than what was expected.
Not just another fake romance come true. Zoe took the opportunity to repair the schism in Adam's family before agreeing to marriage. Not everyone would have risked that.
Not just another fake romance come true. Zoe took the opportunity to repair the schism in Adam's family before agreeing to marriage. Not everyone would have risked that.
December 10, 2021
Quick good read!
Characters are well developed and their interaction, conversations and friendship is great. The love story develops slowly in such a short story. But that makes it more meaningful.
Characters are well developed and their interaction, conversations and friendship is great. The love story develops slowly in such a short story. But that makes it more meaningful.
December 21, 2021
I enjoyed reading this book and seeing how Zoe and Adam's romance evolved. Pretty funny the ex-girlfriend deciding she wants him when she was the one who dumped him to start with plus he knew she only wanted him for his family's money. Adam's daughter Abby is sweet too.
February 8, 2022
a clean and wholesome story
It was such a good story. Love that Adam realized family was everything. Then how he met Zoe and fell in love. It was nice to read a romance story with out reading about there sex life. iT was very refreshing
It was such a good story. Love that Adam realized family was everything. Then how he met Zoe and fell in love. It was nice to read a romance story with out reading about there sex life. iT was very refreshing
June 3, 2023
Zoe and Adam find their way
Wow, April, l just cannot put your books down. I love a book with a child, and Abby stole my heart. Nice to have a bunch of guys holidaying together, l am sure it will be another great series. Zoe is an amazing heroine and Adam is a great character.
Wow, April, l just cannot put your books down. I love a book with a child, and Abby stole my heart. Nice to have a bunch of guys holidaying together, l am sure it will be another great series. Zoe is an amazing heroine and Adam is a great character.
June 4, 2023
the ending
Ok you jumped from the makeup work to the wedding. That was it. What about all the parents. Did they have more kids, figuring it was her looser ex.
End was definitely lacking.
Ok you jumped from the makeup work to the wedding. That was it. What about all the parents. Did they have more kids, figuring it was her looser ex.
End was definitely lacking.
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June 8, 2023Great job
It was great that Adam was not so attached to family wealth that he missed the chance for true happiness with Zoe as he acknowledged his love and that true love doesn't look at bank accounts.
It was great that Adam was not so attached to family wealth that he missed the chance for true happiness with Zoe as he acknowledged his love and that true love doesn't look at bank accounts.
June 13, 2023
Maybe 2.5
I liked the storyline - sort of.
Wasn’t keen at all on Adams friends and family and that horrible woman.
Story was a lot far fetched considering Adam was such a wealthy, handsome and intelligent man.
Zoe was ok.
Read for yourself as it may suit you.
I liked the storyline - sort of.
Wasn’t keen at all on Adams friends and family and that horrible woman.
Story was a lot far fetched considering Adam was such a wealthy, handsome and intelligent man.
Zoe was ok.
Read for yourself as it may suit you.
August 12, 2023
Heart
This,was a cute,story that makes you believe that things happen for,a reason. Although some are painful. Group of guys go on vacation as a way to rekindle frieNdships and the best happens
This,was a cute,story that makes you believe that things happen for,a reason. Although some are painful. Group of guys go on vacation as a way to rekindle frieNdships and the best happens
February 18, 2020
Good romantic novel
A good read that people will enjoy. A little formalistic, has a satisfactory ending. No sex to mess things up. Recommended
A good read that people will enjoy. A little formalistic, has a satisfactory ending. No sex to mess things up. Recommended
April 1, 2020
I love this book alot. 💗💗💗 it is amazing.
July 13, 2020
A wonderful short romance filled with everything to make you enjoy it, love, heartache, emotional, often funny including the sweetest child character. Also about family tradition and selfless love. You will fall in love with all the characters, can’t wait to read more about them in a next book.
July 16, 2021
A good clean second chance romance: I really enjoyed reading and would recommend it.
December 1, 2021
Good romance
I love a good romance story and The Billionaire's Heart is exactly that. I enjoyed April Murdock's story tremendously. Very sweet.
I love a good romance story and The Billionaire's Heart is exactly that. I enjoyed April Murdock's story tremendously. Very sweet.
December 6, 2021
Fun Fairytale Romance
Fun fairytale romance
I enjoyed reading this book - rather short but sweet and of course came with a happy ending.
Fun fairytale romance
I enjoyed reading this book - rather short but sweet and of course came with a happy ending.
June 6, 2023
Good read.
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