They called her a slut. A porn star. A fallen angel. One scandal was all it took to ruin Celeste Monroe’s career—and her life. When her team fakes a headline tying her to a billionaire she’s never met, she expects the lie to blow over. But Adrian Blackwood doesn’t kill the rumor. He turns it into a deal. One contract. One fake relationship. Two lives too broken to admit what’s real. He’s cold, calculating, and impossible to read. She’s wounded, cornered, and trying not to drown. And somewhere between the staged kisses and forced smiles, pretending stops feeling like a game. But lies have a way of unraveling—and the truth? It might just destroy them both. **This was supposed to save them. Not ruin them.**