Hazel Bennett lost everything in one morning. Her boyfriend stole her life savings and left her with a brother to care for. Desperate for cash, she takes a weekend cooking job for Rodney Turner, a strict hotel owner on the edge of losing his property. To secure a vital investment, Rodney needs a fake fiancée, and Hazel fits the role. But things get complicated when the investor's future son-in-law arrives—and it is Greg, the man who broke Hazel's heart. Trapped in a web of lies, Hazel and Rodney must pretend to be madly in love. As the lines between fake and real blur, Hazel realizes that the biggest danger isn't losing the money, but losing her heart to a man who promised to never fall in love.

Stevie Reed thought losing her cheating husband and her dying aunt in the same week was the worst thing that could happen to her. She was wrong. Inside her aunt's safe deposit box she finds a photograph of a stranger with her eyes, an old gold ring, and a letter that begins with five words she will never forget: she is your real mother. Then Marco Vance walks back into her life with a face she has only ever seen at a funeral, a fortune the size of a small country, and a secret that ties her blood to his. He was raised to hate her family. She was raised to never know she had one. And the man hunting her down to silence her forever is the most powerful name in the country.