General fiction

The Trouble with Billionaires

by Michelle Pennington

Book 1 of the Southern Billionaires series

186 pages · First published 2017

A practical woman who has learned to distrust the complications attached to extreme wealth finds herself drawn into the orbit of a billionaire whose money makes every motive harder to read. Family expectations, public assumptions, and the imbalance between their lifestyles turn ordinary dating questions into tests of trust. The hero must demonstrate that generosity and privilege do not entitle him to affection, while the heroine must decide whether protecting herself has become a reason to reject someone before knowing him. Michelle Pennington’s clean contemporary romance uses the billionaire trope to focus on character, faith, and the difficulty of believing a relationship is genuine when money changes the stakes.