Love Me Not

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>If love is war Cassia James is the mushroom cloud.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Three years ago Cassia Cass James went nuclear on a Hollywood red carpet exposing her cheating fiancé and backstabbing best friend in front of the world. The fallout? A career in shambles a reputation in ruins and a yearly resurgence of memes that make February feel like a cruel joke.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Now with a podcast feature promising her one last shot at reclaiming her image Cass is ready to stage the performance of a lifetime at her annual </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Love Me Not</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> anti-Valentine's Day party. There's just one problem: she needs a date to sell the charade.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Enter Malik-the tattoo artist who's been quietly holding her together for three long years and the only person Cass trusts enough to ask for help.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But Malik isn't just another prop in Cass's chaotic narrative. He's the steady presence who's seen her at her lowest the one who challenges her razor-sharp defenses without flinching. And as they continue to fool the world Cass begins to realize something terrifying: Maybe it's not so fake after all.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Cass must face the truth she's been running from: </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>you can't rewrite your story until you stop hiding from it.</em></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Love is messy. Love is hard. But love might just be worth the risk.</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Love Me Not is a sharp witty and emotionally raw contemporary romance about second chances emotional vulnerability and the love we find when we're not too scared to fight for it.</strong></p>