Against All Odds (Burgoa)

From USA Today bestselling author Claudia Burgoa comes a new best friend's sister, forbidden romance filled with humor and angsty at times.It all started on a dating app and a fake name.Instead of a hot hook-up, I end up face-to-face with Kingston St. James.He's one of the most striking and wealthy men in Seattle-as well as my brother's best friend.Logic dictates I walk away, but curiosity wins and we follow Myka's Easy Rules for Healthy Hookups:Rule #1: Don't expect anything.Rule #2: Never wish for more.Rule #3: Don't swoon.Rule #4: Don't give endearing nicknames to your hookup.Rule #5: Don't be possessive, your hookup doesn't belong to you.Confession time: I'm making up the rules as we go.And surprise, surprise, this casual fling rapidly evolves into a friend-with-pretty-weird-benefits (and not the sexy kind).Kingston is suddenly breaking the hookup rules. He's all charm and affection, turning possessive and… probably hoping for more than just a fling.We accidentally find ourselves tangled in something more than just a fling. It's something dangerously close to love.We might be heading into a collision where the most beautiful accident or the most disastrous end might happen.

USA TODAY Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa pens a fun and sexy romantic comedy where playing pretend turns to playing for keeps… We have to pretend that what we have is something like love… I'm down on my luck. Scratch that. This is the worst week of my life. Enter the last person I want to deal with: Burke St. James. He's wealthy.He's a womanizer.And a big liar. And it turns out we need each other. Burke needs a fiancée to seal the deal of a lifetime. I need help or my business is going belly-up. So, Burke very non-romantically asks me to marry him. Well, he asks me to be fake engaged to him, anyway. I'll attend a few dinners, pretend I'm in love, and meet the family. In exchange, he'll let me stay in his house, invest in my company, and help me launch it off the ground. All is easy, except his kisses feel more real than they should. And the sex…damn, we're not supposed to have sex. It's all for show…right? Did I mention he's a really good liar?Pretending not to fall in love is more complicated than I though