Natalie Tremaine can turn a handful of ingredients into something wonderful. Unfortunately, she can’t do the same with her housing crisis.
Michael Conroy approaches every problem with facts, figures, and a carefully constructed plan. So when a beautiful brownstone apartment becomes available only to an engaged couple, the solution seems obvious: pretend to be in love, sign the lease, and keep their lives completely separate.
Their agreement has rules. Their engagement has a believable history. And neither of them has any intention of confusing convenience with romance.
But sharing a home means shared dinners, interfering families, suspicious neighbors, and far too many moments that don’t feel pretend.
Natalie’s warmth begins slipping past Michael’s defenses, while the steady, quietly thoughtful man beneath his precision proves much harder for her to resist than expected.
The apartment may have been worth one harmless lie. Falling for each other was never part of the bargain.
Now Natalie and Michael must decide whether the relationship they invented is strong enough to survive the truth—or whether their perfect arrangement will cost them the one thing neither knew they were looking for.
