The Fake Date Agreement

My mother found me a podiatrist for Christmas...
His mother found him a senator's daughter for New Year's...
So we wrote five rules on a hospital napkin and prescribed ourselves six weeks of fake dating.

Cameron Richardson was supposed to be my brilliant, infuriating ER colleague.
Instead, he became my fake boyfriend...
Then laminated the ridiculous agreement that was supposed to keep us safe.
We hold hands in public.
We kiss only when strictly necessary.
And everything ends on January first.
It should have been foolproof.
Then his family sends us to a Vermont cabin with one bed.
There is talk of a pillow wall.
We never build it.
Four years ago, I learned what it feels like to be someone's placeholder.
Now Cam looks at me like I'm the one choice he has no intention of losing.

I signed this agreement because an ending I could schedule felt safe...
But the closer we get to midnight...
The more I wonder if the only rule worth keeping is the one that says we choose each other.

THE FAKE DATE AGREEMENT is a standalone, slow-burn holiday romance featuring two ER doctors, fake dating, coworkers to lovers, meddling families, a laminated napkin contract, forced proximity, only one bed, dual POV, and a swoony happily ever after. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed HEA!