I don't know how you can love someone so much, and still end up losing them. Samantha Wilson's life has never been easy-addiction as a teen, losing her childhood best friend, and now barely keeping it together at twenty-five. Between finishing law school and working as her father’s assistant at his prestigious firm, she’s teetering on the edge of a relapse. Things only get worse when her ex-friend turned enemy joins the firm-and she’s assigned as his assistant, a nightmare in disguise. Larson Payne is a cocky, insufferable asshole who is spiraling after a bad breakup, drowning his problems in booze. When he crosses paths with Samantha-his former friend turned rival-he’s more than happy to make her life a living hell. With obsessive exes refusing to move on, they strike an unlikely deal-fake date in public to keep them at bay. Dinners, stolen glances, lingering touches-just enough to sell the lie. But the more they pretend, the more reality begins to blur. No feelings. No strings. Just a mutually beneficial arrangement. But as buried memories resurface and old wounds reopen, their carefully drawn lines begin to blur. And the past? It always has a way of catching up.