When I agree to be a single dad's fake wife for three months to fund my European dream trip, I never expect our pretend family to feel more real than any life I've ever imagined.

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LIZZY

I need money fast, and he needs a fake wife immediately. When I agree to marry Adam Rhodes for three months, it seems like the perfect solution. He gets the stability courts require to keep custody of five-year-old Olivia, and I get enough cash to fund my dream trip through Europe. Simple. Clean. Temporary.

Except Adam isn't the shallow player I expected. He's a devoted single dad who makes pancakes shaped like dinosaurs and reads bedtime stories with different voices for every character. And the way he looks at me—like I'm something precious instead of just convenient—makes my carefully built walls start to crumble.

The scarlet-haired little girl who calls him "Dadam" melts my heart completely. Olivia draws pictures of our "family" and whispers secrets that make me want to protect her fierce little spirit forever.

But I can't stay. I've spent my entire life watching my mother sacrifice her dreams for men who eventually left anyway. I won't make the same mistake, no matter how perfect Adam's arms feel wrapped around me, or how right this borrowed life seems.

The problem is, fake marriage is starting to feel devastatingly real. And when Olivia's vindictive aunt returns with lawyers and ultimatums, I realize I'm not just fighting for my dreams anymore—I'm fighting for theirs.

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Two people who think they don't deserve love are about to discover that sometimes the best families are the ones you fake your way into. This marriage of convenience romance delivers all the steam, all the feels, and all the found family magic your heart can handle.