Vivian Sterling doesn't do messy. She doesn't do spontaneous, she doesn't do disorder, and she absolutely doesn't do love. What she does do - with ruthless precision - is run her sisters' lives. Ever since a devastating accident stole their parents and left twenty-two-year-old Vivian responsible for three grieving teenage girls, she's kept everything under control. The house. The schedules. The choices.
The mistakes they weren't allowed to make. She sacrificed her education, her career dreams, and any chance at a life of her own to make sure Harper, Natalie, and Celeste turned out right. And they did. They're married. They're thriving. They're fine. So why does everyone keep telling her to back off?Natalie cries when Vivian leaves. Harper hides in the bathroom. Celeste can barely breathe. And somewhere across town, three very frustrated husbands are sitting in a bar, nursing whiskeys, and hatching a plan so reckless, so manipulative, so completely insane - that it just might work.
Their solution? Marcus Kane. Charming. Calculated. Devastatingly handsome. Marcus has never met a woman he couldn't win over, never pursued a challenge he couldn't conquer, and never - not once - lost his heart in the process. Dating is his sport. Charm is his weapon. Emotional unavailability is his armor. For the right price, he'll romance Vivian Sterling until she's so distracted by her own love life that she forgets to dismantle everyone else's.
Simple. Clean. No feelings involved. Except nobody warned Marcus that Vivian Sterling doesn't fall - she fights. Nobody told him that beneath all that icy control is a woman who has spent a decade swallowing her own grief to hold everyone else together. Nobody mentioned that breaking through her walls would mean she might break through his too. And nobody - absolutely nobody - prepared either of them for what happens when a scheme built on deception starts to feel dangerously, terrifyingly real.
Could This Be Final is a swoony, sharp, laugh-out-loud contemporary romance about a woman who controlled everything except the one thing that mattered most - and the man who was paid to distract her but stayed because he couldn't imagine leaving. Perfect for fans of fake dating romance, enemies-to-lovers stories, and heroines with razor-sharp wit and hidden hearts of gold.
Vivian Sterling doesn't do messy. She doesn't do spontaneous, she doesn't do disorder, and she absolutely doesn't do love. What she does do - with ruthless precision - is run her sisters' lives. Ever since a devastating accident stole their parents and left twenty-two-year-old Vivian responsible for three grieving teenage girls, she's kept everything under control. The house. The schedules. The choices.
The mistakes they weren't allowed to make. She sacrificed her education, her career dreams, and any chance at a life of her own to make sure Harper, Natalie, and Celeste turned out right. And they did. They're married. They're thriving. They're fine. So why does everyone keep telling her to back off?Natalie cries when Vivian leaves. Harper hides in the bathroom. Celeste can barely breathe. And somewhere across town, three very frustrated husbands are sitting in a bar, nursing whiskeys, and hatching a plan so reckless, so manipulative, so completely insane - that it just might work.
Their solution? Marcus Kane. Charming. Calculated. Devastatingly handsome. Marcus has never met a woman he couldn't win over, never pursued a challenge he couldn't conquer, and never - not once - lost his heart in the process. Dating is his sport. Charm is his weapon. Emotional unavailability is his armor. For the right price, he'll romance Vivian Sterling until she's so distracted by her own love life that she forgets to dismantle everyone else's.
Simple. Clean. No feelings involved. Except nobody warned Marcus that Vivian Sterling doesn't fall - she fights. Nobody told him that beneath all that icy control is a woman who has spent a decade swallowing her own grief to hold everyone else together. Nobody mentioned that breaking through her walls would mean she might break through his too. And nobody - absolutely nobody - prepared either of them for what happens when a scheme built on deception starts to feel dangerously, terrifyingly real.
Could This Be Final is a swoony, sharp, laugh-out-loud contemporary romance about a woman who controlled everything except the one thing that mattered most - and the man who was paid to distract her but stayed because he couldn't imagine leaving. Perfect for fans of fake dating romance, enemies-to-lovers stories, and heroines with razor-sharp wit and hidden hearts of gold.
