Billionaire’s Match review

First-impressions review: based on the free opening chapters (1–3) and the official synopsis. We will update the score once we have read further.

Few openings fit this many reversals into one afternoon. In the first chapter of Billionaire’s Match, Khloe Roswell learns that her marriage is fake and that she is the only heir to a fortune worth billions. Within two hours she has decided what to do about both.

A torn certificate and a phone call

The hook is neat. In the second year of her marriage, Khloe accidentally tears her marriage certificate and goes to the courthouse to get a new one. The clerk finds no record and points to a crooked seal: the document is most likely a forgery. Minutes later a lawyer calls. Her mother, Adele Roswell, left her at a gate twenty years ago, and her father was Neil Morrison, the richest man in Goldmont City, who died the month before. When the lawyer asks about her marital status, Khloe asks for two hours.

She spends them at her husband’s company. Through a half-open door she hears Trey Fox and Angela Thompson, their former university advisor, talk about the five years they have been married. Trey says he still needs Khloe “for a few more things” before the company goes public. Khloe calls the lawyer back: for the record, she is unmarried and has no children, and every asset goes to her alone.

A household built on lies

The story then keeps adding to it. A minor car accident leads to a hospital check, which shows that the uterine condition Trey used to explain their childless marriage was invented. Pete, the five-year-old they “adopted” from the orphanage Khloe grew up in, throws things at her and demands his “real mother”. Pete is five, the same age as the secret marriage. At dinner Trey asks whether Angela can move in to write a parenting book. Pete settles it by throwing his juice in Khloe’s face.

Revenge, one bank transfer at a time

Chapter two shows a heroine who thinks instead of crying. She agrees to let Angela stay, then sweetly asks for a riverside villa as a birthday present. Trey transfers seven million dollars that night, with the memo “For Khloe’s birthday villa”, and her savings jump from 15,000 dollars to over seven million. The breakfast scene will divide readers. After Pete pours soy sauce over her egg, Khloe pins him to the wall and strikes his legs with a switch from a vase. It is a power move against Angela, but it is still a small child being hit, and the book plays it as a win.

Chapter three is the familiar showroom humiliation. Miss Olson, heiress to Olson Toys, and a snobbish sales manager try to push Khloe out of a penthouse on Bouvardia Ave. Then the asset check comes back, and Nigel Bartlet, head steward of the Morrison family, arrives with a line of men in black suits and bows to his “Young Mistress”. Upstairs, a man his assistant calls Mr. Hunt watches from a private suite. That is the only hint of a romance so far.

What could be better

The showroom scene is very predictable (the rude saleswoman literally collapses to the floor), and the end of chapter two stops the story so the villains can explain their motives at length. Small slips, such as the father’s name appearing as both “Neil” and “Niel”, point to light editing. The romance is barely there in the free chapters. We left the reader score off because there are only six ratings so far. At 1,205 chapters and still ongoing, it is also a very long commitment.

Who should read it

If you like a betrayed wife who quietly takes the money before she takes her revenge, and you enjoy a big hidden-heiress reveal, this opening delivers several of them in three chapters. Readers who want a romance from the start will need patience.