Camille, étudiante en littérature de 20 ans, mène une double vie secrète. Le jour, elle est étudiante à l'université ; le soir, elle devient escorte, un moyen de subvenir à ses besoins financiers. Entre ses cours et ses rendez-vous avec des clients, elle jongle avec ses deux vies, toujours sous une apparence calme et sereine.
Mais un jour, tout bascule. Son professeur de littérature comparée, M. Stark, fait appel à ses services sous un pseudonyme. Lors du rendez-vous, malgré la surprise, leur soirée débute comme un simple service professionnel, mais elle se transforme rapidement en une relation complexe et sensuelle, emplie de désir et d'interdits.
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?
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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.
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