by Vi Keeland
Part of Life on Stage
First published 2015
Eight weeks ago, a woman in desperate need signed on the dotted line. The deal looked straightforward: move into luxury accommodations, play the role of a bachelor's companion on camera, keep her mouth shut about the terms, and walk away with a prize her family badly needs. No dating. No sex outside the arrangement. No exceptions. After a year of swearing off men entirely, she figured the rules would be easy to follow. She was wrong. The bachelor is handsome and the setup is polished, but it is his dirty-talking brother who gets under her skin. He is everything the contract did not account for. Now she is caught between the agreement she signed and feelings she never planned to have. Breaking the rules means losing the prize. Keeping them means lying to herself. Vi Keeland's standalone novel Throb runs on that friction, the pull between obligation and want, between a deal made out of necessity and a man who was never part of the plan. Contains strong language and explicit sexual content. Intended for readers 18 and older.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: conflicted, emotional, intimate, steamy, tension-filled
Tropes: contract-romance, fake-dating, forbidden-attraction, forced-proximity
280 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content