How To Fake It | discontinued for rewriting

Aria Sinclair has three rules:

1. Keep your heels high and your standards higher.
2. Never date men who almost run you over.
3. Never-ever-fake-date a rich stranger, even if he has a great jawline and an even better suit.

But after helping said stranger escape a blind date with nothing but a dry glare and accidental charm, Aria thinks she's free of Ezra Caruso for good.

Until the 'Urban Garden Dreamscape' gala. Until Ezra's mother. Until the blind date shows up again. And suddenly, Aria finds herself playing girlfriend once more-this time in heels, in public, and in front of New York's finest.

Ezra Caruso may be old-money, polished, and annoyingly good at everything, but Aria has a business to grow, a stubborn streak to maintain, and one clear condition for keeping up the charade: if she's pretending to be part of his world, he'll help her conquer hers.

What starts as a mutual arrangement becomes something else entirely. And when lines blur and fake feelings start looking suspiciously real, Aria has to decide: is this another stitched-up illusion... or the one risk worth taking?

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