The Invisible Pegasus

Blanch Demetrius has been holding her family together since her mother's back gave out. Waitress by day, extra shifts by night, she is scraping together every last dollar for a single dream: sending her little brother Eros to the architecture school of his ambitions in Greece. Romance is nowhere on her list. Trust broke her once before, and what pulled her out of her darkest years was a book, of all things, a book by Pegasus, the beloved, brilliant, utterly anonymous author whose face no reader on earth has ever seen.

Then two impossible strangers walk into her ordinary life.

The first is a masked man at a crowded book signing. He signs her dog-eared collection, and when she whispers that his words once saved her life, something flickers in his brown eyes, a look she cannot place and cannot forget.

The second is Austinimus Knight: the richest young businessman on the planet, tabloid-famous, sinfully handsome, and arrogantly aware of it. What he wants is a pretend fiancée. His mother is ambushing him with matchmaking, the paparazzi are circling, and a one year fake engagement would fix everything, including Eros's tuition, with a fortune promised to her at the end. He calls her little dove. She calls him unbearable. She says no. Her brother's future says yes.

So begins a contract between two people who swear they feel nothing. Blanch moves into his mansion. They invent a meet-cute, memorize a proposal, and perform the perfect couple for his family, her family, and a ravenous press. He is supposed to be ice; instead he notices how she takes her coffee and defends her to gossiping socialites. She is supposed to count the days; instead she catches herself sketching his face from memory and blushing when he catches her at it.

But the contract is brutally clear: one year, then total silence. No calls, no goodbyes, as if they had never met. And the closer she gets to the man behind the arrogance, the secret gallery of paintings, the friends who watch him too carefully, the warm familiarity of those brown eyes, the more certain she grows that her masked savior and her fake fiancé are one and the same. Falling for him was never part of the deal. Discovering his lie will tear the deal wide open, because the truth about Austinimus Knight was never just a secret between strangers. It was the one story he swore no one would ever read.

When it finally surfaces, Blanch must decide what cuts deeper: the mask he wore for the world, or the feelings they both kept pretending were part of the act. A waitress who stopped believing in happy endings is about to learn that the author who saved her has been writing their story all along.

The Invisible Pegasus is a slow-burn billionaire fake-engagement romance about the girl who saved her favorite author right back, packed with sharp banter, family warmth, jealous exes, guard dogs in suits, and a mask a decade in the making.