It started with a lie.
Well, technically, it started with an HR violation.
Asher Reid is New York's most eligible billionaire CEO-cold, controlling, and incapable of keeping an assistant longer than a month. Enter Wren Petrov: chronically late, maddeningly mouthy, and the only woman who's ever told him to shove a contract where the sun don't shine... and still somehow gotten a raise.
She's been his assistant for five years. Five long, agonizing years filled with tension, bickering, and late nights pretending he's not completely obsessed with her. And just when he thinks he's got it under control, his grandmother waltzes into the office and demands to meet the mystery fiancée he lied about to keep her off his back.
Guess who walks in holding his coffee?
Now Wren's playing the role of fake fiancée, Asher's spiraling into full-blown obsession, and HR is about to have an aneurysm.
Between keeping up appearances, online gossip, a stalker, and people at every turn wanting to break them apart, the "no falling in love" part of their contract just might become null and void.
*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems*
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Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto.
In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.