The Space Between Pretend

Harper Leslie Collins was never meant to fall in love.

At twenty-two, she agrees to a one-year contractual marriage with Sawyer Emerson Cruz-Los Angeles' most broody and emotionally distant heir-because it's practical, temporary, and safe. No expectations. No promises. No feelings.

Sawyer, twenty-six, claims his heart already belongs to someone else...or atleast that's what he tells himself.

What begins as a calm, understanding arrangement slowly grows complicated. Harper's sunshine clashes with Sawyer's shadows, yet fits in ways neither expects. Friendship turns into something dangerously close to love-but Harper has seen what love can become, and she refuses to risk her heart again.

As jealousy rises and buried truths resurface, Sawyer is forced to face feelings he's denied since childhood, while Harper must decide if fear is reason enough to walk away from the man she's quietly falling for.

Because some love stories aren't born out of passion.