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]]

This is the tale of Aubrey Ashe, a regular high-school student living with her destitute drunk of a father and forced to work part-time as a waitress to keep them afloat. At least she was. Through trials and tribulations caused by forces outside of her own control, she's forced down a perilous path, a path that would eventually lead her to a young man named Jackson Avery Rose. At first, he'd appeared as the fantastical solution to all her problems, and despite his strange and secretive ways, they quickly begin to grow closer. However, as their ambiguous relationship keeps blossoming through peculiar twists and turns, our heroine cannot shake the feeling that there seems to be a more sinister secret to uncover beneath the gentle façade of her savior.