The man who wants to bulldoze my mother's bookshop just offered me a deal I can't refuse.Marry him. Pretend it's real. And maybe — maybe — save everything I love.My name is Rosalind Hartley, and I run Hartley & Sons Booksellers on Elgin Crescent.My mother built it with her own hands.She read to my sister and me in the back nook.She died before I learned how to keep it alive without her.Now my sister Lily is sick, the medical bills won't stop, and a glass-and-money tower is about to rise where my whole childhood used to stand.The man behind the wrecking ball is Dante Blackwood.Tall. Cold. Limping from some old wound he won't explain.The kind of face that belongs on a magazine cover or a wanted poster.He stood in front of the council and called my mother's legacy "left behind."I went there to fight him.I did not expect him to offer me a contract instead.A marriage. A performance. His name and his fortune in exchange for a wife on his arm — and a lie a whole village would have to believe.I signed because Lily's life is worth more than my pride.But Dante has a secret I was never supposed to find. And the longer I live inside his lie, the harder it gets to remember it isn't real.Then, in a garden that smelled like rain, the most guarded man I've ever met made me a promise:"I tore up the contract, Rosalind. Whatever this is now — it's real."But a trap is already closing, and the truth Dante buried could shatter the family they're only pretending to build.Bound by the Mogul is a tender, steamy billionaire boss romance about a marriage of convenience, a Cinderella story, a guarded hero, a secret that changes everything, and the wife he has to win back.Perfect for readers who love marriage-of-convenience romance, grumpy-billionaire-meets-sunshine, fake-relationship slow burn, hurt/comfort, and emotional second chances. A standalone romance with a heartfelt happy ending.