After her fiancé Daniel dies in a suspicious accident, Evelyn Lin is left with a failing design studio, a ruthless investor circling her company, and a ring Daniel never got to put on her finger. Ethan Chen only comes back to Seattle to bury his brother. He does not expect to find Evelyn standing outside the word “family,” blamed, isolated, and fighting to keep Daniel’s company from falling into Victor Zhao’s hands. To protect the business and stop Victor from using Daniel’s death against her, Evelyn offers Ethan a contract: a fake engagement, three months, seventeen rules. The last rule is simple. Do not fall in love. But the closer Ethan and Evelyn get to the truth behind Daniel’s death, the harder it becomes to tell where the performance ends and the real danger begins. She is not his brother’s unfinished business. He is not Daniel’s replacement. And breaking Rule Seventeen may cost them everything.