The #FakeBoyfriend Bet

<p><strong>A grumpy bartender a desperate influencer a bet and a fake relationship. What could possibly go wrong?</strong></p><p><strong>LENA</strong></p><p>The internet is watching my career crash and burn in real-time.</p><p>One viral breakup video and suddenly my influencer empire is collapsing faster than my ex's fake apology video. My sponsors are running for the hills. My manager is stress-eating donuts by the dozen.</p><p>The only solution? Find a man who has no clue who I am and convince him to be my fake boyfriend.</p><p>Enter Max Carter.</p><p>Holy mountains of muscle.</p><p>He's a bartender with a permanent scowl who looks at me like I'm everything wrong with society. He doesn't know I have two million followers hanging on my every post.</p><p>He just knows I'm the crazy woman offering him money to pretend he can't keep his hands off me.</p><p>What I never expected? Those staged kisses would turn into real flames. His growled warnings when other men look my way? They make me shiver in places that have no business shivering.</p><p>This was supposed to be fake. So why does it feel like I'm losing something real?</p><p><strong>MAX</strong></p><p>I don't do relationships. I definitely don't do fake ones.</p><p>Then she walks into my bar.</p><p>Sunshine in human form with curves that make my hands itch and a smile that's hiding secrets.</p><p>When my idiot friends bet me I can't fake-date her for thirty days without catching feelings my pride kicks in before my brain does. Besides how hard can it be to resist a woman who talks to her phone all day and pretends to be something she's not?</p><p>Turns out impossible.</p><p>Because behind the perfect social media facade is a woman who makes me laugh who challenges me who sets my blood on fire with one touch.</p><p>Now I'm breaking every rule I made. Jealous when men look at her. Possessive when I pull her against me. And completely screwed when she discovers the stupid bet that started it all.</p><p>She walked away. Left me with nothing but regret and an empty bed.</p><p>But this grumpy bartender isn't giving up without a fight.</p><p>Because our love story? It was never fake. And I'll do whatever it takes to prove it.</p><p><em>A steamy dual-POV romance featuring a sunshine influencer with secrets the grumpy bartender who can't resist her and a fake relationship that gets all too real. Complete with sizzling chemistry heart-melting moments and the happily ever after that will leave you swooning.</em></p>