A yacht builder who runs his company on his own terms hires a live-in girlfriend when his ex returns and seeks custody of their little girl.
His lawyer wants the court to see a warm, steady family man, so a faux-dating agency offers one month, a few public appearances, and the appearance of a settled home.
The woman who arrives is a brilliant, curvy marine biologist who challenges him, wins his daughter’s affection, and makes a professional arrangement nearly impossible to keep.
Shared breakfasts, her laughter in his house, and his daughter reaching for her hand pull her into the life he meant to protect with a contract.
One kiss breaks the first rule, and one night together ends the rest of the pretense.
He wants the woman he paid to play his girlfriend, yet he has already watched one woman walk away from his child and fears that keeping her could cost his daughter a second time.
