She was still mostly a mystery to me, but I thought I would do anything to unravel her. Irina Rusnac, freshly graduated from Sydney University, should be returning to Romania now that her student visa is expiring. Except she has a very good reason to stay the hell away from home, and she’ll do almost anything to remain in Australia. Her controlling on-again-off-again girlfriend thinks they should get married, but that would be escaping one bad situation to throw herself into another. Instead, Ri decides to live slightly illegally and earn money as a creator on Tickle, a wildly successful adults-only app, until she can work out a more permanent solution… …Henry Baxter, Australia’s youngest billionaire and the tech genius behind Tickle, just wants to escape a party he never wanted to host. A woman, sans-panties, is the last thing he expects to find when he retreats to his bedroom. And afterwards, when he digs a little into her background, he discovers her immigration conundrum. Offering to marry her seems a reasonable solution. It’s only two years of pretending to be a couple, with a simple, amicable divorce once she’s legal. If only the spark between them wasn’t constantly on the verge of catching fire … and the past Irina is running from wasn’t determined to catch up to her…
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Layla has been writing stories ever since she could pick up a pencil and shape words. The most memorable works of her tween and teen years included a rap version of 'Little Red Riding Hood' and an embarrassingly spicy high school camp/murder mystery (which was possibly a sign of things to come). Layla studied Communications at Newcastle University in NSW, Australia, and worked as a buyer and marketing coordinator in the education sector, before joining her husband in the family retail business. That's still her day job (she's very lucky her boss is pretty lenient, or she'd never get any writing done). Layla lives on an acreage in regional NSW with her husband, two rambunctious children, four mostly feral cats, and an ancient German Shepherd who still thinks he's a puppy. Oh, and some angry Plovers that swoop her every spring without fail.
