Sometimes, the best inspiration comes from the most unexpected places.
I’m not looking for a no-strings fling when I bump into the hottest guy I’ve ever seen. Then I run into him again on a girls’ night out. He’s got a reputation as a bad boy, but I start to think there might be something worth exploring between us.
Soon, our electrifying encounters unlock my debilitating writer’s block and provide sinfully sweet material for my latest steamy romance novel. With a looming deadline, spending some time between the sheets with my new source of inspiration is exactly what I need.
Everything is amazing for a while but gets complicated when one of us (I won’t say who) starts to catch feelings. And then my worst fear materializes—someone discovers my pen name and threatens to expose me. No one knows about my alter ego—not my mom, a celebrated inspirational author, nor my stepdad, a famous televangelist. Now, I’m on the verge of losing everything. My choices? Shut down my budding career or embrace the vixen the bad boy has awakened inside me and fight like hell to win him back.
She’s the girl with a plan. He’s the reason she’s rewriting it.
The plan was simple: buy the building, open my artist co-op, and prove I’m not just the family screw-up with a passport full of stamps and a highlight reel of almosts and maybes.
I wasn’t planning on Oliver Martin.
The bartender next door is infuriatingly laid-back, unfairly attractive, and somehow always in my space. He offers help I don’t want, teases like we’ve known each other forever, and makes my heart race when I should be focusing on work.
He’s also hiding something. So yeah… not great.
Just when I’ve made up my mind to stay far away from him, Oliver goes and does something infuriating. He shows me a side of himself that’s real, vulnerable, and completely unexpected.
Now I’m stuck trying to figure out how to protect the dream I’ve poured everything into… while falling for the one person who could take it all away.