He needs a better reputation. She needs the right people to hear her music. Falling for each other was never part of the agreement.
Eleni Markou has spent years fighting for a place in the music industry without becoming someone else's headline. Adrian Hale is a famous quarterback with a talent for winning games, attracting scandals, and assuming every woman wants his attention.
After a disastrous first meeting involving spilled champagne and mutual dislike, the last thing either of them expects is to be mistaken for a couple. But when their agency offers them a deal, the benefits are impossible to ignore: six months of fake dating could repair Adrian's public image and give Eleni's career the visibility it desperately needs.
The rules are simple. Planned appearances. Approved affection. No real feelings.
But between stadium nights, rehearsals, relentless cameras, and arguments that feel increasingly like flirting, their carefully controlled performance begins to change. Eleni discovers that Adrian is more complicated than the arrogant player she judged him to be, while Adrian realizes that keeping her at a distance may be harder than losing control of the story.
Because pretending to fall in love is easy.
Pretending they haven't might be impossible.