1,826 Days
A reclusive billionaire. A broke painter. A fake name that changes everything.
Five years ago, Brian Daniels kissed a woman in a silver dress at a New Year's gala. She gave him a name. It wasn't hers. She vanished before morning.
He's spent five years searching for a ghost.
Jane Eaton can barely make rent. She paints in a closet she calls a studio, works at a gallery full of art nobody buys, and has forty-two dollars in her checking account. She doesn't have time for the sharp-suited "consultant" who walks in, buys three terrible paintings without blinking, and looks at her like she's the only masterpiece in the room.
She doesn't know he's been looking for her since that night.
He doesn't tell her his real last name.
Because Brian Daniels isn't a consultant. He's the billionaire CEO whose company is tearing her neighborhood apart — the same man she tried to fight with a hand-signed petition she couldn't even get past lobby security.
She's falling for the only man in New York who actually sees her.
He's falling for the only woman who's ever made him forget the math.
And the lie between them? It's a ticking clock with a billion-dollar price tag.