BLURB:

When my world implodes, the last person on earth I ever expected to see again comes to my rescue—my gorgeous as sin and forbidden ex-boyfriend’s stepdad...

The first time I met the NHL All-Star legend was at the hockey player’s Hamptons cottage to celebrate his stepson’s twenty fifth birthday. There was no forgetting Kazimir Lindström’s mesmerizing blue eyes or the permanent sexy scowl that creases his thick eyebrows.
A year later, my life takes a nose dive.

When the universe throws him back into my life, the 6’4 tattooed, brooding former pro athlete comes to my rescue when my toxic boss fires me from the job that is my lifeline, after my financial debacle, for an unfortunate incident that wasn’t my fault.

A few days later, Kaz shows up at my door right as I'm having an emotional meltdown when I discover my superintendent is not only a Peeping Tom, but the creep stole my stash money, leaving me without a safety net.

On the heel of a nasty divorce that was splattered all over the gossip rags, my ex-boyfriend’s stepdad needs an image rehab to close a deal he’s been courting for six months without any headways because of the PR disaster.

I'm not sure if it's my desperation or his reckless and impulsive decision-making that causes the outrageous proposals to drop from his kissable lips. One of New York’s most eligible bachelors wants me to be his fake girlfriend. And he offers me a position as his social media manager. Oh, and he wants me to move in with him?

My bank balance is too anemic to refuse his offers. As long as we don’t blur our carefully drawn lines, I can pull this off…

Life with Kaz is so idyllic, I gaslight myself into believing a girl like me—born into a good-for-nothing family of thieves—can rewire her trailer trash DNA, and this fairytale can be my forever when I’m still holding onto a dark secret. One, that if exposed, could taint Kaz’s reputation and ruin his empire.

USA Today Bestselling Author Scarlett Avery brings you a whirlwind of a sizzling grumpy x sunshine hockey romance between a boy-obsessed (he falls first) who’s been dealing with abandonment issues his whole life and a woman who’s down on her luck and convinced she doesn’t deserve love because of her family’s sins.