Accidental Bid

Josie waves at her best friend. The auctioneer calls it a $115,000 bid, and the gavel falls.

Six years of group shows and polite rejections have taught broke Brooklyn painter Josie to laugh first and hope quietly. Tonight she is supposed to charm gallery contacts in a borrowed dress. Instead, five hundred donors and every society camera watch her accidentally buy four days with Manhattan's most unattainable billionaire.

Andrew Crawford offers her a discreet way out. Josie, barefoot with her heels in one hand, refuses to embarrass a children's charity on its biggest night. She makes exactly one demand: she brings her paints. Now the sunshine artist who turns every embarrassment into a punchline is headed for a Malibu beach house with a guarded old-money heir who has made being unknowable look effortless.

Their bickering sparks into something neither of them planned for, and the gap between her rent-and-rice budget and his world sharpens every comeback. If Josie stops joking long enough to let Drew truly see her, the cameras waiting outside may claim far more than an accidental headline.

A warm, low-angst billionaire romance with sparkling banter, explicit open-door heat, and a complete happily ever after.

Come behind the billionaire's perfect mask and find out how much he will risk to let one woman all the way in.