I was seventeen when I died.
It was a helpless night drive after a party. Or so we thought.
I never saw it coming. Nobody did.
We were a couple of immature teenagers, Jill and I.
Jill was drunk. We both were. And she was driving.
There was an ugly sharp turn, and a black car.
Jill somehow survived, but not me.
We were immediately driven to the hospital, where Jill was found with several injuries and a concussion.
As for me, I was done.
The last thing I remembered was a bright light.
That was it. I wasn't moving forward through life. No prom, no graduation, no living.
But there was just one thing left.
I was dead, but I wasn't gone.
I was still roaming this Earth, except, no one could see me.
I wandered alone for days, wondering what I was still doing, practically still living.
Turns out, I had a purpose. I still had some unfinished business to take care of before I was completely gone.
It wasn't going to be easy, but that's life, even when your dead.
Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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