Sugar McKenzie and August Wakefield couldn't be more different - Sugar, a meticulous, caring, but lonely paramedic and August, a charming former reality star still chasing his dream. But they've both closed themselves off emotionally from others...that is until they match with each other on a dating app. After a disastrous first date, the two agree to never see each other again, yet they both can't stop thinking about one another, and circumstances keep pulling them back into each other's lives. Are they the real answer each other dreams, or will they continue to go through their lives hiding behind walls, just faking it? _________________________________________________________________________________ • Second Draft • { Wattpairs Mentorship Challenge 2020: Second Place Winner } { Wattpad Chicklit Ambassador: Adulthood Reading List } { Romance Reads Contest 2019: First Place Late Lovers } { Best of Summer Awards 2018: Best in Show "ChickLit" Winner } { Best of Summer Awards 2018: Judge's Pick Winner } { Blossom Awards 2018: First Place "ChickLit" Winner } { Contemporary Romantics Award: #RomanticsAwards2022: Shortlist } { Wattpad NA Ambassador: Hold My Stilettos | August 22, 2022 } { Chicklit #26 rating on September 6, 2022 } { Enemies to friends to lovers #5 on September 18, 2022 } { Onlinedating #1 on September 5, 2023 } { Texttospeech #10 on May 13, 2024 } { Contemporary #10 on May 13, 2024 } ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Only on Wattpad. If you are reading this story on any other platform other than Wattpad you are very likely to be at risk of a malware attack. If you wish to read this story in it's original, safe, form, please go to (https://www.wattpad.com/story/115197023-fake-it). Thank you!

Twenty nine year old fantasy writer Darlene Cloud doesn't understand why all her alpha readers are in love with the villain, King Malachi. When in fact, her readers should be in love with his brother, golden boy, Prince Nicholas. She's about to call it quits rewriting and rewriting that she kills King Malachi without so much as a second thought. The Man who Swallows Nightmares (and who is a living nightmare) is gone. Her alpha readers are in an uproar that she goes back to the drawing board: her trusty, overworn leather notebook. The Kingdom of Thrive lore, background stories, and random thoughts are alive. But what happens when King Malachi can see her? He knows when she is there with him. And what if, he starts to fall in love with her -- the ghost? ✦ ✦ ✦ Where does fantasy begin and reality end? ✦ ✦ ✦ Prompts: ❝66.) A grim fairytale is unfolding right before your eyes. As its author, it's up to you to put an end to the nightmare.❞ ❝73.) Falling in love isn't easy - especially when the person you fall in love with is a ghost.❞ ✦ ✦ ✦