About this story
He is also an heir whose mother has frozen his accounts until he marries. A one-year fake marriage fixes both problems on paper: a signed contract, a mansion, a ring, a dinner his mother refuses to leave. Ten chapters of rivals playing a couple until the performance stops feeling like one.
Who you’ll meet
The bestselling novelist who stole your promotion and is now your editor, on one knee in his mother's marble hall holding up a blood-diamond ring for photographs of a marriage neither of you means.