The Deal Maker

The last person Lucy Jones expects to fake-date is the infuriatingly smug billionaire who makes her want to scream within five minutes of meeting him.

Lucy has spent thirty years living in her sister Elizabeth's perfectly curated shadow—wrong clothes, wrong career, wrong everything according to her mother's relentless scorecard. When Elizabeth gets engaged and names Lucy maid of honor, she sees her shot at a long-overdue reinvention. Polished. Sophisticated. Completely in control. She has one wedding to prove she's got it together, and she is absolutely not blowing it.

Then Hunter Bain walks in. Best man. Self-made millionaire. Professional contrarian. He's all sharp suits and sharper opinions, and somehow Lucy gets saddled with him as her co-planner for the joint bachelor-bachelorette weekend. Naturally.

When a family drama threatens to derail the pre-wedding festivities, Lucy and Hunter strike a deal: a fabricated romance to smooth things over and keep the peace. Simple. Temporary. Strictly business. Except Hunter keeps looking at her like she's the most interesting problem he's ever wanted to solve, and Lucy's carefully constructed walls start developing very inconvenient cracks.

She came to this wedding to reinvent herself. She did not come to catch feelings for the one man who's seen every unfiltered, chaotic, gloriously messy version of her—and somehow keeps coming back for more.

The deal was supposed to be fake. The hard part is remembering that.