Coffee Stains On My Heart: A Single Mom CEO Contemporary Romance

She built an empire so no one could ever leave her again. He lost everything and swore he'd never risk his heart twice. Neither of them planned on falling in love for real. Emilia Valenti doesn't do weakness.

As the CEO of a company worth millions, she's mastered the art of never needing anyone — not since her ex-husband loved her less with every success she earned. But when a spilled cappuccino and a ruined acquisition file collide with the one man in Seattle who refuses to be impressed by her, something cracks open she thought she'd sealed shut for good.

Matteo De Luca doesn't do second chances. He buried his wife five years ago and buried his heart right along with her. Now his family's roastery — and everyone who depends on it — is hanging by a thread, and the only way to save it is to fake a relationship with the very CEO trying to buy it. No real feelings. No overnight stays.

No letting her daughter get attached. Rules are easy to write. They're impossible to keep.

Because somewhere between staged photo ops and stolen quiet mornings, between a little girl who calls him "boyfriend" before either adult is ready, and a scandal that threatens to burn it all down, Emilia and Matteo discover the truth neither of them wanted to admit: the arrangement stopped being fake weeks ago.

Now, with a shareholder vote that could cost her everything and a heart he swore he'd never open again, they have one impossible choice left to make — walk away safe, or risk it all for a love neither of them saw coming. A slow-burn, single-mom, fake-dating romance about learning that the bravest thing you can do isn't building an empire.

It's letting someone in .