The Redline Engagement

Serene Avery Gilmore has always lived a charmed life, surrounded by wealth and the kind of security that kept the harsh realities of the world at arm's length.

To her, deep emotional pain was merely a concept she studied for school-something that belonged to other people's stories, never her own.

​That sense of safety shatters in a single evening when an unexpected incident upends her world, leaving her sense of trust in pieces.

Overwhelmed and needing to escape, Avery finds herself on the secluded rooftop of a luxury hotel, watching her carefully constructed life spin out of control.

​It is there, in the quiet of the night, that she crosses paths with a man she has never met. He is a stranger facing a crisis of his own, dealing with a public fallout and a future that just took a sharp, unintended turn. In a moment of desperation to protect his reputation, he makes a startling choice: he drops to one knee before the girl he doesn't know.

​Now, Serene faces a life-altering decision. She can remain in the wreckage of her former life, or she can accept a ring from a stranger and enter into a fake engagement.

It is a gamble that offers a temporary escape, but one that could easily lead to an even greater disaster.