Trillion

Pierce Ainsworth Westcott III, known as Trey, has his sights set on acquiring Ames Oil and Steel and he always gets what he wants. Always. Ames represents the ultimate of successes for him. Once named the World’s Most Eligible Bachelor, thirty-five year old Trey was born uber-rich, old-moneyed, and orphaned at fifteen. After attending Harvard Business School, he turned his five hundred billion dollar inheritance into more than one trillion. Today he runs Westcott Corporation, an iconic Chicago company for three generations. He loves work and has a single-minded focus. His father was obsessively in love with his mother but Trey never understood it. For him, love isn’t even on his radar. He doesn’t have time for emotions. He is focused on important things like running his empire. He is honest, though, and never makes empty promises of love.Sophie Bristol, twenty-seven, has a stellar resume. A Princeton grad with dual degrees in International Business and Accounting, after graduation she had her sights set on a job at Westcott Corporation, back home in Chicago. Westcott has sixty thousand employees and is a great company to work for with upward potential. She finally got an interview and was hired three years ago. It wasn’t a great job, but it was a foot in the door. Two promotions later, she now works in Payroll. She lives close enough to visit with her mother and younger sister Emmeline, who suffers from muscular dystrophy. And she has a small but close-knit group of girlfriends. She doesn’t need a man – just her career. She was burned once before and she learned the hard way not to trust a man.On the way to a meeting, Trey overhears a female employee defending him. Seeing her, he is taken in by her stunning Marylin Monroe-esque beauty and her witty intellect. When Trey later learns that Nolan Ames wants his family company to go to a family man, he won’t let something as simple as a marriage get in his way. One woman in particular comes to mind, and Sophie soon finds out that Trey always gets what he wants.Trey and Sophie embark on an unconventional fake courtship. Sophie is reluctant, but Trey’s persistence eventually wears down her barriers and opens her reluctant heart, allowing the idea of love to return to her life. There are many problems with that idea, though, for both Trey and Sophie. Neither wants emotional entanglements. Trust and honesty are a challenge as they learn to navigate their way forward. Sophie is a closed book, which is an obstacle to their relationship. But unexpected complications appear somewhere along the way, threatening their plans. The couple eventually gets their well-earned happy ending.Trey and Sophie’s fake marriage story is about corporate mergers, teenage mistakes, selflessness, and obsessive love. Their story is beautifully written. It is serious in tone. The plot is somewhat complex. Sophie’s painful past is told slowly as the current story unfolds. The characters are three dimensional and carefully crafted. Sophie’s character is complex, while Trey's is more straight forward. But even he has layers. The story is written in first person. The POV alternates between Trey and Sophie, with one chapter in Nolan’s POV. I rate this book five starts.I received and advance copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Holy crap, even with a trillion reasons to love this new release from Winter Renshaw, I still can’t come up with enough words to say how awesome this book was! Sophie and Trey were characters who impressed me immediately, and while they both had suffered so much loss and grief in their past, their experiences were very different, yet were every bit a defining moment as to why they would each seek to avoid any kind of emotional relationship.Told in my favourite dual POV, Ms Renshaw held me enslaved by her words as we simultaneously met a naive young Sophie at 17, and the steady and seemingly confident 27 year old Sophie who had insurmountable integrity and self-worth. Chapter by chapter, Ms Renshaw revealed both versions of our heroine and I couldn’t fathom how both could be the same one, until the hard truth was at last revealed.I loved Trey Westcott from the get go, and it was almost hilarious as we saw an increasingly thwarted Trey Westcott who just couldn’t bring her around to his way of thinking by throwing money her way. Hells teeth, I have to admit, I’d have fallen in with his plan quick-smart!!!If there was one thing I struggled with throughout this story though, it was thinking about how I would deal with the same situation if I was Sophie’s mother. And these were the shoes I was wearing as I read this book. I guess I would’ve felt as impotent as her mother did, and be there to pick up the fallen pieces with a mother’s unconditional love.Whether you’ve read one or many of Winter Renshaw’s books, you’ll know that she is the Queen of Twisted Truths. It’s like looking into a mirror at a sideshow, knowing that what is reflected back at you is the truth, but it’s totally distorted out of all proportion. I’ll always keep reading, grabbing at the pieces of the book that Ms Renshaw will only reveal when she is ready.As the story in Trillion comes to a head, the feel of the book becomes more raw and gritty, like the splinter under your skin that you just have to keep picking at. It’s painful, but the need to keep going is a necessity so that some kind of healing resolution can happen.There are a trillion reasons to love everything about this fake relationship read from Winter Renshaw, but I only have one sentence to offer you now. Go and one-click this 5 Star book from Winter Renshaw! It’s reading time and money well spent!

This is another brilliant book by the author and i was really swept up by the story and poor Sophie as she is taken advantage of by her first true love, a man who certainly has no problem using a young girl for his own means.Trey was certainly a softer person than i expected. He may play hardball in the board room, but with Sophie he rapidly went into doing anything he could just to make her happy at the expense of business.Sophie has a good support system with her mother and i was glad that her mum was able to talk some sense into her at the end when she was likely to sabotage her own happiness at her own expense .Glad that the nasty business man got his comeuppance in the end.

This is the story of a very, very,very rich man. When I first started reading I though oh this is a bit predictable but I should have known better. Other reviewers have given an excellent précis of the story, so I won’t.I will say that this is another compulsive read from Winter Renshaw with a beautiful love story at it’s heart. It’s everything you want from one of her books and more. I’ve been hooked on her books since PS I hate you and she continues to go from strength to strength.

Besides Ms Renshaw ‘harping on a bit’ about how rich Trey and every aspect of his affluent lifestyle was (including ridiculously expensive restaurants with diamond detailing on them?! Yawn 🙄), I enjoyed this book. The past/present stories running parallel to each other worked well. Sophie was also pretty together as a heroine. The chances of her ending up in contract situations with 2 extremely rich businessmen was highly unlikely, but then what would these enjoyable romances be without a touch (or two or three) of the ridiculous. The further away from real life the better right?! In short the book was well written and I would recommend it. I will be reading more by Ms Renshaw.

Really enjoyed this story, although I wish that Sophie had been a bit stronger when she met up with Ames again, and I would have liked to have seen his reaction when he got his comeuppance, possibly with Sophie being in the room to rub it in, as really he seemed to have got off quite light in comparison to her, and I wish it hadn’t taken so long to happen. I think that the sort of person Trey was that he would have had to confront Ames rather than work behind the scenes, as he still got the money, so really not much of a punishment

I love this kind of book but confess many of them are alike, I enjoy reading them but at times feel it’s all the same book and story. This book was different, and better right from the beginning. It kept me reading and not wanting to put it down till I was finished and recently that rarely ever happens.Highly recommend this book who likes this trope but what’s something more elevated and exciting.