I told my entire family I was engaged. To my best friend. Who was standing right there when I said it.

Sloane Whitfield didn't plan to lie. But when her mother announced that Sloane's ex-fiancé is marrying Sloane's younger sister — in three weeks, at the family lake house, in front of everyone — panic did the talking. I'm engaged too, she blurted. To Grayson.

Grayson Reid has been Sloane's best friend for twelve years. He's also the only person who knows exactly how much that wedding will cost her. So when she turns to him with wild eyes and a ring-less hand, he doesn't argue. He puts his arm around her, tells her mother "we were going to wait to announce it," and books two seats for the lake house before Sloane can take it back.

It should be simple. Play the part for one weekend. Let her sister have her spotlight-stealing wedding without an audience for Sloane's humiliation. Go home, quietly call it off, go back to normal.

Except normal was never going to survive a shared bedroom, a family who wants a ring on her finger now, and twelve years of a tension neither of them has ever let themselves name. Grayson has spent over a decade being careful with Sloane — patient, steady, the friend who never made a move. The lie hands him a reason to stop being careful. And once he starts, he has no intention of giving her back.

By the second night at the lake house, the lie isn't the hardest thing Sloane's hiding anymore.

A high-heat, emotionally intense standalone romance with a guaranteed HEA.

Tropes: Fake Engagement, Best Friends to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Family Drama, Revenge Romance, Possessive Hero

This book contains explicit content intended for readers 18+.