Elise Starling is happiest as the bold friend who will try anything, not the woman meant to hold the spotlight.
On New Year's Eve she sneaks into the Chicago Racketeers' party, gets trapped in an elevator with brooding goalie Blake Wilder, and is rescued by a firefighter.
Blake needs a fake fiancée to claim his inheritance, and Elise agrees to the short-lived act even after an ex convinced her she is not real girlfriend material.
The pretense tangles further when she meets her former boss again, the charming British billionaire she kissed just before quitting, and the firefighter makes it clear he wants both her and that billionaire.
All four of them burn hotter together than apart, but the arrangement is meant to end once the inheritance is settled and the billionaire returns to London.
