Espresso kisses and Emerald eyes

Claudine Hartley is 28, emotionally bruised but fiercely independent, with striking green-blue eyes and a habit of hiding her pain behind caffeine and sarcasm. When her meddling work friends push her into a blind coffee shop date, the last person she expects is Eliryx Voss—30, enigmatic, calm, and dangerously alluring with dark green eyes that seem to read her soul. A high-powered lawyer with secrets of his own, Eliryx offers her a proposition that’s all pretend… at first. But things grow complicated when her ex, Aston—who broke her heart—starts circling back. With her colorful friends, complicated family ties, and a fake relationship that starts feeling real, Claudine must decide: does love brew slowly… or does it hit like an espresso shot straight to the heart?