The Extra Chair: A Slow-Burn Contemporary Romance

By Piper Vance

Nora Ellison is paid to make difficult rooms easier. She attends dinners, conferences, and social events as a polished, believable partner, remembers the right names, tells the right story, and leaves before the performance becomes personal.

Architect Julian Ward hires her for one week of donor dinners, office receptions, and a trip to Detroit while his firm competes for a major Chicago library project. The rules are clear: keep the story simple, keep the boundaries intact, and keep feelings out of the invoice.

But the more convincing they become to everyone else, the harder it is to tell where the performance ends.

The Extra Chair is a mature, slow-burn contemporary romance with women's fiction elements, fake dating, professional protagonists, dry humor, emotional restraint, and a closed-door love story.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HHY1D18C
• ISBN13: 9798172137969
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"