Beneath Gilded Expectations

Liam Kensington has spent his entire life under the watchful eye of high society, thanks to his mother's renowned business empire. But while she dreams of seeing him wed to a proper, well-bred lady, Liam has no interest in marriage, especially not to the insipid socialites she parades before him.
Fed up with her relentless matchmaking, he decides to put an end to it once and for all, with a dramatic, scandalous proposal at his mother's lavish soirée. His chosen bride? Alessia Russo, a fiercely independent and notoriously clumsy professional footballer who just so happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. In front of a room full of his mother's misogynistic billionaire friends, Liam drops to one knee and asks for Alessia's hand.
He assumes the shock will be enough to humiliate his mother into giving up. He never expects Alessia to play along. And he certainly never expects to actually fall for the woman he intended to use as a ploy.
Now, as the lines between real and pretend blur, Liam finds himself in a predicament he never saw coming, because the more time he spends with Alessia, the more he wants to turn their fake engagement into something very, very real.