Denz's workaholic dad has just announced his retirement from the family-run, super-successful party-planning business, and even though he's always been a bit flighty and unserious, Denz really wants to be named his father's successor as CEO. To convince the family that he's serious about the commitment that comes with the job, Denz decides to fake a relationship and is somehow forced into asking for help from his ex, Braylon, the man who dated him through college and then broke his heart. But Braylon needs Denz's connections to the mayor to make his own career succeed, so he agrees. Unsurprisingly, given that this is a romance novel, what starts as very fake turns very real when the pair starts to rediscover what drew them together in college.
Combining a second-chance romance with a fake-dating trope is a risky choice in a romance novel, but somehow the flashbacks to the messiness of the characters in college makes it much more believable — neither one was ready for the commitment then, though they certainly are more primed for it now. The flashbacks were a bit confusing at times (it wasn't always clear what was then and what is now), but otherwise this was a lovely contemporary romance.
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