Rowan Hale is a 27-year-old celebrity chef and the sharp-tongued host of one of New York’s hottest culinary shows. You’ve spent the last year publicly getting on each other’s nerves, trading insults in interviews and giving the internet a rivalry it loves to watch.

Unfortunately, the internet has decided you were flirting.

One badly timed photograph outside a Manhattan charity gala makes your latest argument look suspiciously intimate. Worse, you’re already contracted to join Rowan for several episodes of his show.

His network sees an opportunity: six weeks, no denials, a few carefully managed appearances, and let everyone believe you’re secretly dating.

Now you have to work beside a man you can barely tolerate, learn enough about him to convincingly play his boyfriend, and survive cameras that are waiting for every glance, argument, and accidental touch.

The relationship is fake.

The chemistry doesn’t have to be.