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Books by Alisson Bento

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18 complete billionaire romance novellas, free to read online. A fired chef facing forty-one penthouse rules, a hostile takeover fought from one glass office, an elevator that stalls with the wrong billionaire inside, an heir whose inheritance requires a wife.

The money is never the point for long. These heroines run workshops, shops and businesses of their own, and the men with every resource have to learn the one thing they cannot buy: her trust.

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Where to start

If you want a rule-breaker heroine and a boss who stopped letting anyone close, start with Rules of the Penthouse. Fired chef Juliet Moreau goes to work for reclusive billionaire Callum Ashby, whose house manual has forty-one rules, and she breaks the first one on night four.
If you want enemies to lovers in an office, start with After Hours at Halvorsen. Priya Desai has to share a glass corner office with Erik Halvorsen for the thirty days it takes to fight off a hostile raider, and their bet says the first one to crack gives up the deal.
If you want a fake engagement with a deadline, start with Snow in the Desert. Falcon vet Iris Penhallow has twenty-one days before Zahram sends her home, until Sheik Rayan Al-Hadi offers her a way to stay: wear his ring, fool the Grand Vizier and never fall for the lie.
If you want a grumpy/sunshine bodyguard romance, start with The Only Rule He Broke. Piano tuner Wren Ashby walks into the K-Corp tower with a brick and a grudge and walks out with Jax Priest, the billionaire’s head of security, whose one rule is never touch the job.
If you want a why-choose billionaire story, start with The Last Lit Window. Clockmaker Leda Farrow keeps the last lit window on a dark Manhattan block, and three billionaires need it gone. Her bargain: she will fix the dead clock in their tower by New Year’s Eve.
If you want a grumpy billionaire who is also a guardian single dad, start with A Baby in the Boardroom. He walks into a Chicago boardroom with a crying baby, ten days to make a deal and no nanny, and only his rival’s assistant, Rachel Kowalski, can calm the baby.

What is billionaire romance?

Billionaire romance pairs a heroine with a man who has more money and power than almost anyone she has met. The gap between them drives the story. He can buy the building, the company or the evening. He cannot buy her answer. Most billionaire romance books build on a handful of setups: a boss and an employee, a contract with written terms, a business rivalry, a fake engagement, or a bodyguard who has to stay close.

Alisson Bento’s free billionaire romance stories use that whole range. A contract sets the terms in Rules of the Penthouse, where a private chef works under a house manual of forty-one rules, and in The Terms of Staying, where a man offers to buy one evening with a book restorer and a debt tests what choice means. Rivals share the page in After Hours at Halvorsen and The Price of an Equal. Bodyguards lead The Only Rule He Broke and Stranded on Eagle Island, and Snow in the Desert turns on a fake engagement to a sheikh.

Who are the heroines and heroes in these stories?

The heroines in this collection are defined by their work. Leda Farrow is a clockmaker in The Last Lit Window. Wren Ashby tunes pianos in The Only Rule He Broke. Iris Penhallow treats falcons in Snow in the Desert, and Roz Tremblay fixes the boats nobody else can in The Boat in the Granite. Others restore books, work as a conservator, style a photo shoot, found a technology company or keep an executive’s office running. Their trades give each story its stakes: a shop, a boatyard, a work permit, a license.

The men vary as much as the women. There is a reclusive billionaire who keeps an east wing locked, a founder’s son handed the CEO chair, a hotel heir in A Table of Our Own, and a man in Before the Ink Dries who must marry to secure what his family left him. Snow in the Desert has a sheikh with his late father’s white falcon, and A Baby in the Boardroom has a Nebraska billionaire who arrives in a Chicago boardroom with a crying baby and no nanny.

Most of these billionaire romance stories online are set in big cities. The Last Lit Window and The Price of an Equal take place in Manhattan, The Price of Staying centers on a Brooklyn hall, and Before the Ink Dries, The Story She Couldn’t Kill and A Baby in the Boardroom are set in Chicago. A few leave the city behind: a Greek billionaire’s private island, a boat hidden in a granite cliff, and Zahram, the desert setting of Snow in the Desert.

How to pick a billionaire story by trope

Each story page lists its tropes, so start with the setup you like best. For contracts and arrangements, try Rules of the Penthouse, Before the Ink Dries or What Wasn’t in the Contract, where a billionaire hires an independent professional’s judgment. The Story She Couldn’t Kill offers a business arrangement with three weeks and two million dollars attached. The Contract After Midnight puts a billionaire boss and his employee in one hotel room, with one bed and a rule he wrote himself.

For rivals, After Hours at Halvorsen sets Priya Desai against the founder’s son who got the CEO chair she expected, in one glass office for thirty days, with a bet on who cracks first. The Price of an Equal has two Manhattan technology founders after the same breakthrough license. The Price of Staying sets a conservator against a wealthy buyer who can afford the building but has to earn her trust.

For a fake engagement, Snow in the Desert asks a falcon vet to wear a sheikh’s ring and fool the Grand Vizier so she can stay in Zahram. For a why-choose story, with one heroine and more than one partner, The Last Lit Window brings three billionaires into a clockmaker’s shop. Stuck Between Floors traps a grumpy billionaire and a sunshine assistant in an elevator stopped between floors, and A Baby in the Boardroom adds a guardian single dad to a forbidden workplace romance.

How long are these free billionaire romance stories?

Every story here is a complete novella. The Story She Couldn’t Kill is the shortest at 14,828 words, about 64 minutes of reading. After Hours at Halvorsen is the longest at 25,631 words, about 111 minutes, and Rules of the Penthouse is close behind at 24,569 words and 107 minutes. Many of the free billionaire romance stories sit near 15,000 words and about 65 minutes, a good fit for one evening. Another group runs from 20,041 to 21,766 words, or 87 to 95 minutes.

Reading works the same for every story: the opening chapters are free on the page, and the rest unlocks free once you confirm your email and join the author’s reader newsletter. Each story opens in the browser on a phone, tablet or computer, with no app to install.

Every story in this collection

The Last Room At Calder House

4,504 words · about 20 min read

A booking failure leaves restoration manager Iris Bellamy sharing a room with Rowan Calder, the wealthy hotel heir competing for her next contract. Working together could save a neglected seaside hotel and twelve jobs, but a forged email puts her reputation at risk. To build something lasting, they must risk losing the bid—and learn the difference between being protected and being truly seen.

Tropes: rivals to lovers, One Room, Wealthy Heir, equal partners
Rules of the Penthouse

24,569 words · about 107 min read

Fired from Manhattan's most famous kitchen, Juliet Moreau takes the only job left: private chef to reclusive billionaire Callum Ashby, whose house manual has forty-one rules. Never speak to him at dinner. Never enter the east wing. Juliet breaks the first rule on night four, and the way he finally looks up at her makes her want to break them all, starting with the locked doors where a man who stopped letting anyone close keeps everything he wants.

Tropes: billionaire, boss/employee, dominant hero, contract romance, rule-breaker heroine
After Hours at Halvorsen

25,631 words · about 111 min read

Priya Desai expected the CEO chair. Instead the board handed it to the founder's son and ordered her to share his glass corner office for the thirty days it takes to fight off a hostile raider. Erik Halvorsen is arrogant, infuriating, and impossible to stop watching in the night-dark windows. So they make a bet: the first one to crack gives up the deal, and neither of them intends to lose.

Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, office romance, hate sex, the bet, workplace forbidden
The Terms of Staying

Towers of Obsession · 20,800 words · about 90 min read

A clearance notice sends book restorer Mara Vale into Adrian Voss's tower. The billionaire offers money and time for one public evening beside him. She negotiates the boundaries, then discovers the missing page that changes everything. With her workshop at stake and a real kiss already between them, Mara must decide whether a man accustomed to buying answers can learn to respect her no.

Tropes: billionaire, debt coercion, public companionship contract, possessive-attraction, earned choice
Before the Ink Dries

The Ironclad Vows · 20,673 words · about 90 min read

When a locksmith arrives at Mara Voss's Chicago workshop, she prepares to fight for the door. Then billionaire Julian Rook offers a stranger proposal: a real marriage that could release his inherited vote before his uncle sells the building. Mara insists on her own lawyer, protected tenant rights, and an exit he cannot purchase away. Sharing his house was meant to be practical. Wanting him was never part of the agreement.

Tropes: marriage-of-convenience, Forced Proximity, class difference, family-secrets
The Price of an Equal

The Boardroom Rivals · 20,430 words · about 89 min read

An estate auction throws two formidable technology founders into the same Manhattan laboratory. Mara can match Evan Carver problem for problem. Trusting him with her future is another calculation. When competing designs reveal the possibility of a partnership, desire must survive a false accusation and the terms he assumes she will accept.

Tropes: rivals to lovers, billionaire hero, competent founder heroine, professional forced proximity, equal partners, earned trust
The Price of Staying

Billionaires & Tycoons · 20,041 words · about 87 min read

Conservator Nia Vale has five days to tell the truth about a Brooklyn hall. Wealthy buyer Adrian Shaw expects a clean acquisition, until her findings complicate his plans—and her independence complicates his heart.

Tropes: professional rivals to lovers, earned trust, wealth gap, competent independent heroine, community ties
What Wasn't in the Contract

Cláusulas do Bilionário · 21,766 words · about 95 min read

Recommended by Mrs. Almeida, acoustic consultant Iara Nunes finds nine days of work at the Cine Aurora—and a client who is hard to ignore. Daniel Serpa wants to decide the building's future; she insists on an independent conclusion. Between the auditorium's echo and a dinner with no plans on the table, attraction grows. A photograph used beyond the terms of their agreement forces them both to discover what trust really demands.

Tropes: Billionaire and Independent Professional, Slow Burn, Workplace Romance, Rebuilding Trust, Cultural Heritage
A Table of Our Own

Boardroom Crowns · 20,114 words · about 87 min read

Soraya knows how to make everyone else feel welcome. With ten days to turn a shuttered dining room into a paid hospitality training pilot, she cannot afford a charming complication. Adrian Vale has the right family name and unexpectedly useful hands. When his family puts her name on a plan she never approved, attraction will not be enough. He must earn her trust in the room, on the record, and over a breakfast that belongs only to them.

Tropes: capable working heroine, hotel heir, class difference, workplace collaboration, Slow Burn, acts of service
The Story She Couldn’t Kill

Towers of Obsession · 14,828 words · about 64 min read

Rowena Robson kills headlines for Savage Industries and believes in nothing she can’t spin. Then the heir to the company her boss just gutted is waiting in her booth with a secret worth burying and an old email she forgot she sent. Three weeks. Two million dollars. One rule she’s about to break.

Tropes: Ice Queen Heroine, Secretly Devoted Billionaire, Business Arrangement, Enemies to Lovers, Secret Affair
The Last Lit Window

Boardroom Crowns · 14,918 words · about 65 min read

Clockmaker Leda Farrow keeps the last lit window on a dark Manhattan block, and three billionaires need it gone. So she makes them a bargain: she will fix the dead clock in their tower by New Year’s Eve. Then a lender’s thugs bring gasoline. The clock is missing its heart. So, it turns out, are they.

Tropes: Why Choose, Billionaire Bargain, Forced Proximity, Possessive Protectors, Enemies to Lovers
The Boat in the Granite

The Pulse Point Series · 14,849 words · about 65 min read

Roz Tremblay is one bank letter away from losing her late father’s boatyard when Gideon Beck, the ice-eyed security chief of billionaire Harrison Croft, offers triple pay to finish a secret boat hidden in a granite cliff. Live on the mountain. Ask nothing. Tell no one.

Tropes: Bodyguard Romance, Forced Proximity, Grumpy Protector, Working-Class Heroine, Slow Burn
Stuck Between Floors

Billionaires & Tycoons · 14,995 words · about 65 min read

Pink-haired assistant Wynne Bennett guards her boss’s door at Watts Global like a dragon guards gold. Then the elevator stops between floors, and the grumpy billionaire trapped with her is the man she has been rejecting for months. He wants forty-one boxes of old letters. She wants him gone. Neither plan survives the night.

Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Billionaire Romance, Stuck in an Elevator, Secret After-Hours Romance, Grand Gesture
Snow in the Desert

The Fake Fiancé Files · 14,867 words · about 65 min read

Falcon vet Iris Penhallow has twenty-one days before Zahram sends her home. Then Sheik Rayan Al-Hadi carries his late father’s white falcon through her gate at midnight and offers her a way to stay: wear his ring, fool the Grand Vizier, and never fall for the lie.

Tropes: Fake Engagement, Billionaire Sheikh, Forced Proximity, Opposites Attract, Grand Gesture
The Only Rule He Broke

The Ironclad Vows · 15,261 words · about 66 min read

Piano tuner Wren Ashby walks into the K-Corp tower with a brick and a grudge. She walks out with Jax Priest, the billionaire’s head of security, who has one rule: never touch the job. Someone wants her building empty. Neither of them planned on wanting each other.

Tropes: Bodyguard Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine, Forced Proximity, Protector Hero, Opposites Attract
Stranded on Eagle Island

Billionaires & Tycoons · 15,019 words · about 65 min read

Milan stylist Lena Bassi flies to a Greek billionaire’s private island for one photo shoot. His silent head of security takes her grandmother’s scissors, her phone and her patience. Then the wind rises, the sky closes, and there is nowhere to hide from him.

Tropes: Grumpy/Sunshine, Bodyguard Romance, Forced Proximity, Stranded Together, Opposites Attract
A Baby in the Boardroom

Bound by a Baby · 14,850 words · about 65 min read

Rachel Kowalski keeps the coldest office in Chicago running. Then a Nebraska billionaire walks into her boss’s boardroom with a crying baby, ten days to make a deal, and no nanny. Rachel can calm the baby. Calming her own heart is another matter.

Tropes: Grumpy Billionaire, Guardian Single Dad, Assistant Romance, Forbidden Workplace Romance, Forced Proximity
The Contract After Midnight

15,484 words · about 67 min read

Hazel Quinn is the only assistant who ever stayed. Adrian Voss is the man who wrote the rule against loving her. A snowstorm, a hotel he must win, and one room with one bed. Then the clock strikes midnight.

Tropes: Billionaire Boss, One Bed, Forbidden Romance, Grumpy/Sunshine

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Can I read billionaire romance books online for free here?

Yes. Every story on this page opens in your browser. The opening chapters are free on the page and the rest unlocks free with a confirmed email.

Which tropes do these billionaire stories use?

Boss and employee, fake engagement, marriage of convenience, rivals, forced proximity and bodyguard romance all appear. Each card links to a story page that lists its tropes.

Are these the same as the books on Amazon?

No. These novellas are exclusive to this site. Some are companions to a paid series, and the story page says so when that is the case.

Is the hero always the billionaire?

No. In the bodyguard romances, the man at the center works for a billionaire. Jax Priest is a billionaire’s head of security in The Only Rule He Broke, Gideon Beck is billionaire Harrison Croft’s security chief in The Boat in the Granite, and in Stranded on Eagle Island a bodyguard who never smiles shadows stylist Lena Bassi on a Greek billionaire’s private island.

Are any of these billionaire stories part of a series?

Yes. Several share a series name. Billionaires & Tycoons includes The Price of Staying, Stuck Between Floors and Stranded on Eagle Island. Towers of Obsession, The Ironclad Vows and Boardroom Crowns each appear on more than one story. Some are prequels: A Table of Our Own leads into Highly Reserved, and What Wasn’t in the Contract comes before The Secret Clause. Each one is a complete story.

Is there a why-choose billionaire romance here?

Yes. The Last Lit Window is a why-choose story, meaning one heroine with more than one partner. Clockmaker Leda Farrow faces three billionaires who need her Manhattan shop gone, and a lender’s thugs who bring gasoline. Its other tropes include a billionaire bargain, forced proximity, possessive protectors and enemies to lovers. Each story page lists its tropes, so a why-choose story is easy to spot.