Prelude To You by Jacqueline Darling

The woman he can’t have…and the one he can’t live without.
A billionaire romantic comedy-drama

ROMAN
The heir to an empire, his whole life dictated before he was born. He was trained to be rational, calculating, merciless. Life was business and business was life. There could be no complications.
Then came Isabel. She was everything he never knew he needed. Now thoughts of her consume his days and haunt his nights.
That makes her the empire’s greatest threat.
And his greatest challenge…

ISABEL
A pastry chef, happy with a job she adores and a roof over her head. Until she’s fired and blacklisted with the rent coming due. Love is the last thing on her mind when a perfect stranger rescues her from a bookstore brawl.
They spend a magical night together, but he tells her they can never be. Leaving her with a shattered heart.
She lands a job at a mansion owned by a family richer than God. A job that might just be
her salvation.
That is, until she finds out who lives in the forbidden south wing…