First published 2017
Every morning Holland Bakker finds a reason to pass through the same subway station, just to hear the Irish musician play. She never speaks to him. Then one night a drunk man corners her on the platform, and Calvin McLoughlin steps in. He vanishes before the police can take his name, and Holland is left with nothing but a plan: get him an audition with her uncle, the most powerful musical director on Broadway. The audition works. Calvin gets the job. Then the reason he ran from the police comes out: his student visa expired years ago and he has no legal right to be in the country. Holland makes a fast, impulsive decision. She proposes. Calvin accepts a marriage of convenience from a woman whose feelings for him are anything but convenient. He moves into her life, Broadway falls for him, and the two of them perform a careful act of not-quite-strangers pretending to be spouses. The longer the performance runs, the harder it gets to remember what was real to begin with.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, romantic, tender, witty
Tropes: fake-dating, forced-proximity, slow-burn, strangers-to-lovers
Setting: New York, Broadway, Subway Station
Period: Contemporary
358 pages · Paperback · Piatkus Books