ENGAGED BY ACCIDENT

Engaged by Accident
A Mistaken Fiancée Romance

Nora Kessler is nine minutes late, soaked through, and carrying a five-tier cake up a service stairwell when she finds a man in a tuxedo sitting on the steps with an open ring box.

He’s Grant Holloway, one of the most controlled men in New York, and the ring was meant for someone who just ended things by text. They have ten honest minutes, a lot more truth than strangers should trade, and one terrible moment of timing. The door opens. A room full of people sees a ring, a clasped hand, and a woman they have been told to expect.

They call her Honora Whitlock, the reclusive heiress whose name Grant’s biggest deal depends on. Nora is a small-town baker with a failing bakery and a brother’s secret debt. She is not Honora. But Grant’s dying grandmother is crying with joy, the cameras are already flashing, and neither of them can say the words that would take it all back.

So they make rules instead. Hands and cheeks in public. Separate bedrooms. Nobody gets paid, and nobody tells his grandmother the truth. It ends the day the deal closes, and Nora decides who walks away.

But rules were never meant to survive late-night kitchens, a waltz neither of them planned, or the way Grant starts learning the name of every person Nora loves. Nora starts to see the man behind the careful public face. Grant, who has built his life on never asking a question he doesn’t already know the answer to, finds himself wanting to hear hers.

The lie is getting bigger. The press is closing in, a rival is asking questions, and both of them are keeping something back that could end it all.

Nora and Grant meant to fake an engagement for a few weeks. They never meant to fall for each other.

When the truth finally comes out, will anything between them turn out to be real?