Nora

Rule one of being best friends with Sawyer Cole: never let him know how long I've wanted more than friendship.

Rule two: never, under any circumstances, tell my entire family I'm engaged to him to keep them from finding out my ex just got engaged to my cousin.

I broke rule two on a Tuesday. By Friday, we're driving four hours to my sister's destination wedding to sell the lie in person, sharing one cabin, one bed, and eleven years of carefully buried want.

Sawyer's supposed to play along and nothing more. That was the deal. But somewhere between the fake hand-holding and the very real way he looks at me when he thinks I'm not watching, the lie stops feeling like a lie.

Sawyer

Nora asked me to be her fake fiancé like it was nothing. Like I haven't spent a decade wanting to be the real thing.

I said yes because I'm an idiot for her. I say yes to everything for her.

I told myself I could do this — play the part, keep my hands where they belong, hand her back to her life when the weekend's over. Then we get snowed into one cabin with one bed and every rule I set for myself starts breaking one at a time.

She thinks this is pretend. I stopped pretending somewhere around hour two.

The wedding is four days away. The lie is getting harder to keep straight. And the only thing more dangerous than her family finding out the truth is Nora finding out how long this was never fake for me at all.

BREAKING THE RULES is a full-length, standalone Forced Proximity Erotic Romance with explicit heat throughout and a guaranteed HEA.

Tropes: Forced Proximity • Fake Engagement • Best Friends to Lovers • One Bed • High Heat • Family Drama

18+ Reader Advisory: This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for mature audiences.