"You hate me?" He asked me through gritted teeth while still pinning me against my car. "Yes" I whispered keeping my gaze away from him "Speak up Aria or people will think you're showing a Montgomery weakness " Xander said moving dangerously closer to me. It took everything in me to look him in the eye and say what I had to. Every fibre of my being knew I was lying and he'd probably see through it too but I had to do it. Our families would never let us be together so before they tore us apart I had to end this. "I hate you Xander Montgomery"

Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction? ****** Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything. [[word count: 200,000-250,000 words]]