A struggling barista temps as a playdate. ⋆☆⋆ Luke Alistair knows he's not boyfriend material. He's always broke, prefers listening to vinyls over humans and thinks kissing is overrated. But with a looming debt and a failing cafe, he's willing to do whatever it takes to make a quick few thousand bucks. So when Upper East Sider CeCelia Munroe offers him cash in exchange for being her counterfeit boyfriend - a girlfriend trial as she calls it- the offer is too sweet to pass up. The cherry on top? Celia's pining ex-boyfriend, who's been hit with amnesia, is also willing to pay him money to play spy and find out why they broke up. All Luke has to do is not get caught, which sounds easy enough. Except Celia's his new roommate. ⋆☆⋆ [ glassheart chronicles : #1.3 ] [© ataliass 2025 ]

Holding hands with a S&C coach-turned-fake-boyfriend to become a Grand Slam champion wasn't in Gen Haley's playbook. Then again, how "fake" is fake if she never got over Sebastian Yoo in the first place? (full summary inside) achievements: #20 in tennis (4/14/25) #74 in adultfiction (5/12/25) #18 in dramedy (2/13/25) #50 in friendstolovers (2/16/25) #1 in asiansinlit (2/22/25) © j toussaint. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

𝐒𝐢𝐱 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐛𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞. Summer O'Connell was sixteen, the DA's perfect daughter with a taste for dangerous boys. Orion Mylonas was nineteen, heir to a crime family and already soaked in blood. But she made him soft, and he made her reckless - until one violent night shattered everything. 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐤𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞. 𝐇𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐮𝐩. 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 - 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 - 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐡𝐢𝐦. Now, six years later, Summer's father is running for Congress, and his campaign is unearthing ghosts best left buried. And when Summer and Orion are forced back into each other's orbit, the truth isn't the only thing threatening to reemerge. 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 - 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭, 𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐫𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 - 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝.