The CEO’s Wife
A Sapphic Billionaire Romance Thriller
by Isla Wilde
Pairing: FF (Sapphic)
Heat: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Scorching
Tropes: Forbidden Romance, Secret Relationship, Ice Queen, Billionaire, Trophy Wife, Workplace Romance, Power Exchange, Praise Kink, Touch Starved, Hurt/Comfort, Competence Kink, Found Family, Class Difference
She was the perfect wife. Ornamental. Obedient. Invisible. Then the woman who fixed her zipper burned her husband’s empire to the ground.
Vivienne Vance hasn’t been touched in nine months. She hasn’t been seen in twelve years. She’s a four-billion-dollar man’s most expensive accessory — a trophy wife in a penthouse cage, performing perfection for a husband who hasn’t looked at her since the honeymoon. She has a walk-in closet the size of most apartments, a standing reservation at every restaurant in Manhattan, and a prenup that ensures she leaves with nothing.
Then she meets Rowan Pierce.
Marcus Vance’s executive assistant is brilliant, composed, and dangerously observant. She fixes Vivienne’s broken zipper at a gala and looks at her — really looks at her — for the first time in years. One touch. One moment of being seen. And the ice queen begins to thaw.
What begins as a stolen kiss becomes an affair conducted in broken camera blind spots, burner phone texts, and the back seat of a Honda Civic. But Rowan has a secret: she’s been documenting Marcus’s four-billion-dollar securities fraud for months. The man who controls Vivienne’s world is about to lose everything. And Rowan has to choose — the case, or the woman she’s falling in love with.
When the wire comes out and the walls close in, Vivienne must decide: stay in the cage she knows, or trust the woman who’s offering her a door. A door that leads to a terrace in Barcelona, a judgmental cat, and the terrifying, magnificent freedom of choosing her own life.
You’ll love this if you enjoy:
✓ Sapphic romance with slow-burn tension and scorching payoff
✓ Ice queen trophy wife × competent assistant who sees her
✓ Affair romance with genuine emotional complexity
✓ Thriller subplot — wire recordings, SEC filings, a billionaire takedown
✓ Touch-starved heroines who fall apart when they’re finally met
✓ Praise kink, power exchange, and sex that means something
✓ A guaranteed happily ever after in Barcelona
The CEO’s Wife is a 125,000-word high-heat sapphic billionaire romance thriller featuring an affair, corporate fraud, explicit sexual content including praise kink and power exchange, emotional intensity, and a guaranteed happily ever after. This book contains themes of emotional abuse and coercive control within a marriage.
⚠️ Content Warning: This book contains explicit sapphic sexual content including praise kink, power exchange, emotional dominance, and multi-position scenes. Features an affair (the husband is the villain), emotional abuse and coercive control within the marriage, a brief scene of physical intimidation (arm grab), themes of captivity and isolation, and corporate fraud/thriller elements. Heat level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️. Intended for readers 18+ only.
Read Chapter One
The Perfect Wife
The eggs were perfect.
Vivienne knew this because she’d watched Rosa prepare them exactly the way Marcus liked — soft scrambled, folded twice, plated on warmed bone china with a sprig of chives he’d never eat. The toast was sourdough from the bakery on Madison, sliced thin, barely golden. The coffee was Jamaican Blue Mountain, French-pressed at precisely 6:47 so it would reach optimal drinking temperature by the time Marcus sat down at 6:55.
Everything in the Vance penthouse was precisely calibrated to Marcus’s preferences. The thermostat. The lighting. The thread count. The wife.
Vivienne sat at the far end of the twelve-seat dining table in a cream Roland Mouret sheath and nude Louboutins, her platinum hair blown smooth, her makeup a masterclass in looking like she wasn’t wearing any. She’d been ready since six. She was always ready. Being ready was, at this point, the entirety of her job description.
Marcus hadn’t looked at her once.
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Six months after the epilogue. Barcelona. A sapphire ring. A terrace at sunset. And a proposal that leads to the hottest scene in the entire series — because celebration sex hits different when you’ve earned every second of it.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is The CEO’s Wife spicy?
Extremely. Heat level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ (Scorching). This is a high-heat sapphic romance with explicit scenes featuring praise kink, power exchange, emotional dominance, and multi-position encounters. The steam builds throughout and includes desk scenes, hotel rooms, a parking garage, and a Barcelona terrace.
Is there cheating in this book?
Yes — the central romance is an affair between the trophy wife and her husband’s executive assistant. However, the husband (Marcus) is the clear villain — emotionally abusive, controlling, and running a multi-billion-dollar fraud. The affair is framed as liberation, not betrayal. If infidelity is a hard line for you, this may not be your book. If you love the complexity of it, you’ll love this.
Is this a romance or a thriller?
Both. The love story between Vivienne and Rowan is the emotional core, but the securities fraud subplot — wire recordings, SEC filings, a CFO flipping, a billionaire takedown — drives the plot forward. Think sapphic romance meets corporate thriller with a guaranteed HEA in Barcelona.
Is there bonus content available?
Yes! There’s an exclusive bonus chapter set six months after the epilogue — Rowan proposes on the Barcelona terrace with a sapphire ring, and the celebration that follows is the hottest scene in the entire story. Read it here.
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