The Billionaire's Maid Has His Secret Daughter

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Regina Carter is drowning. At twenty-eight, she's a maid, a mother to a wonderful six-year-old girl named Lily, and utterly broke. Lily needs a life-saving heart surgery, a cost her ex-husband fled from, leaving Regina to shoulder the impossible burden alone. Her only hope is a new job cleaning the penthouse of Valentine Martinez, NYC's most notorious and coldest billionaire. A man haunted by tragedy, Val hasn't smiled in three years and rules his world with an iron fist, allowing no one to touch his things or his past. On her first day, a desperate mistake leads to her immediate termination. Faced with losing everything, Regina does the unthinkable. She corners the formidable Valentine and utters a desperate, reckless lie: that her daughter is his, the result of a forgotten one-night stand. To her shock, the lie works. Val, whose memory of that period is a dark, alcohol-fueled blur, is forced to keep her close, unable to risk his formidable mother discovering a secret grandchild. But what begins as a dangerous bluff quickly spirals into a terrifying reality. As Val's icy exterior begins to crack, revealing a man capable of deep pain and unexpected tenderness, Regina is haunted by a chilling possibility. The timeline fits. The chance encounter she dismissed as a fluke begins to feel like fate. The lie she told to save her daughter might be the very truth that could either save them all or shatter their lives completely. In a world of wealth and secrets, Regina must navigate her growing feelings for the man she's deceiving, all while racing against time to save her daughter and uncover the real truth of her past.