Wren Callahan has one rule: never fall for the money. She's watched what it does to people — the way it turned her own parents' marriage into a ledger of resentments. So when her struggling PR firm hands her the assignment of a lifetime — six weeks playing fake fiancée to Sawyer Vance, heir to a yachting-and-hospitality empire on the brink of a scandal-threatened IPO — she tells herself it's just a job. A very well-paid, very temporary job that could finally fund the social-impact agency she's been building out of a shoebox of invoices and hope.

Sawyer doesn't need a fiancée. He needs a headline that isn't about him. Ever since the tabloids turned his last relationship into a circus, the board's been breathing down his neck, and the only way to steady his family's company before it goes public is to look like a man who's finally settled down. Hiring a stranger to play the part should be simple. It should feel like every other deal he's ever closed.

It doesn't.

Wren asks questions no one on his board would dare ask. She calls him out when he hides behind charm instead of answering. And somewhere between staged dinners and unstaged 2 a.m. conversations on the deck of his boat, Sawyer starts wanting things he was never allowed to want — a partner instead of a performance, a home instead of a headquarters, a woman who sees the man underneath the name on the building.

For Wren, the danger isn't that he's rich. It's that he's real — and real is so much harder to walk away from than money ever was.

They have six weeks to convince the world their relationship is true.

The problem is convincing themselves it isn't.

Tropes: Billionaire, Fake Engagement, He Falls First, Opposites Attract, Forced Proximity, Found Family, New Adult Romance