All He Surrendered
(2026)(A book in the Secret Baby Billionaire Romance series)
A novel by Maggie Calloway
He ended their marriage holding a fork.
No shouting. No slammed door. Just Ellis Livaudais at the kitchen sink, eating cold shrimp out of a plastic container, telling his wife the other woman was pregnant — and not putting the fork down to do it.
Lisette Vireau had a folded ultrasound photo in her jacket pocket. She had about four seconds to decide whether to mention it.
She didn't.
She signed away the house, the money and the name without a fight, and asked for exactly one thing: her grandmother's cabinet, a piece of secondhand furniture with a door that stuck. Ellis signed it over in eleven seconds without reading the page.
Inside it were thirty-one index cards, dated and initialled in her own handwriting — the only proof left on earth that the perfume paying for his family's houses had been composed by a twenty-four-year-old nobody had ever thought to ask.
Five years on, Lisette has a fragrance house built up from a folding table at a Saturday market, a son the Livaudais family has never been told about, and a man beside her who has never once lied to her and has never once tried to rescue her.
Then Ellis opens a trade magazine, sees his own hands on a four-year-old boy, and reaches for the phone.
He wants to talk about his son.
His family's lawyers want to talk about the cabinet.
A romance about the woman who walks out with nothing, the man who was worth waiting for, and the eleven seconds that cost a dynasty everything.
A low-spice, closed-door romance with no explicit sexual content and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
No shouting. No slammed door. Just Ellis Livaudais at the kitchen sink, eating cold shrimp out of a plastic container, telling his wife the other woman was pregnant — and not putting the fork down to do it.
Lisette Vireau had a folded ultrasound photo in her jacket pocket. She had about four seconds to decide whether to mention it.
She didn't.
She signed away the house, the money and the name without a fight, and asked for exactly one thing: her grandmother's cabinet, a piece of secondhand furniture with a door that stuck. Ellis signed it over in eleven seconds without reading the page.
Inside it were thirty-one index cards, dated and initialled in her own handwriting — the only proof left on earth that the perfume paying for his family's houses had been composed by a twenty-four-year-old nobody had ever thought to ask.
Five years on, Lisette has a fragrance house built up from a folding table at a Saturday market, a son the Livaudais family has never been told about, and a man beside her who has never once lied to her and has never once tried to rescue her.
Then Ellis opens a trade magazine, sees his own hands on a four-year-old boy, and reaches for the phone.
He wants to talk about his son.
His family's lawyers want to talk about the cabinet.
A romance about the woman who walks out with nothing, the man who was worth waiting for, and the eleven seconds that cost a dynasty everything.
A low-spice, closed-door romance with no explicit sexual content and a guaranteed happily ever after.
Genre: Romance
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