Beautiful Lies (Vale Billionaires 1) by Faith Summers-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date December 15, 2025

I made a deal with a monster in a tailored suit. When my father died, I thought grief was the worst thing I’d ever face. I was wrong. He left behind dark secrets and a single lifeline keeping my mother alive—our family’s hundred-year-old restaurant.

Then Knox Vale walked into my life and ended my world with a single look. Cold in his eyes. Controlled in his movements. Catastrophic in every way that matters. Heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire— and the man my father didn’t just work for…
but betrayed. Knox owns the loan tied to our restaurant. With one signature, he could take everything I have left.Unless I accept his alternative:

Marry him. For six months. A deal with a beautiful devil. To save my mother, I agree to his terms: A legal marriage. A perfect public lie. No love. No lines crossed. Rules that were doomed the moment he touched me. Because when I enter his world, everything shifts.

Knox Vale watches me like I’m a secret he intends to unravel. Touches me like I’m a weakness he plans to exploit. And when the mask slips, I see a man I shouldn’t want… yet can’t walk away from. I thought he’d ruin my life. I didn’t expect him to rewrite it.

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REVIEW:BEAUTIFUL LIES is the first instalment in Faith Summers’ contemporary, adult VALE BILLIONAIRES erotic, romance series focusing on the Vale siblings. This is thirty-two year old, heir to the family owned Vale Global Holdings, Knox Vale, and twenty-six year old artist Isla Monroe’s story line.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Knox and Isla) BEAUTIFUL LIES follows in the wake of the death of Isla’s beloved father John Monroe, a man whose secrets ran dangerous and deep. With the family owned restaurant at stake, Isla and her mother will discover that all is not as it appears to be, and our heroine is about to become a payment for sins of the past. To save everything and everyone she loves, Isla is contracted to marry our story line hero, a man with a bigger agenda than she could have ever imagined.

The world building follows the building but acrimonious relationship between Isla and Knox, as Vale Global Holdings goes in for the proverbial kill. Isla believes she has six months to save her family legacy but there is not saving when the Vale family is involved.

The relationship between Knox and Isla is tempestuous at best. In an effort to save the family business, Isla is forced to marry a man she does not love but a man who will reveal years of secrets and lies that threaten her family. Falling for Isla was never in the cards but Knox finds himself falling for a woman whose heart he is about destroy. The $ex scenes are provocative and intense without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, energetic and sometimes questionable secondary and supporting characters. We are introduced to Knox’s siblings-Dorian, Levi, Locke, Adeline and their father Jeremiah Vale; Knox’s assistant Sheila, Isla’s ex boyfriend Chad Holloway, her best friend Mia, and Isla’s mother. Dorian’s story is next.

BEAUTIFUL LIES is a story of secrets and lies, betrayal and vengeance, power and control, family and relationships, acceptance and love. The character driven premise is edgy and dramatic; the romance is seductive and tense; the characters are desperate, determined and charismatic.

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Review by Sandy