Present Day
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity, Fake Relationship
Camille Valois, a French au-pair and stablehand at El Ocaso resort, never expected her life to change so dramatically during a stormy night. A near-miss car collision with a stray dog brings her face-to-face with Hawke Sterling, her childhood nemesis. With their mutual cousins’ engagement party on the horizon, they are forced to work together, old tensions resurface, and memories of their fractured relationship come rushing back.
When Hawke suggests a sham engagement to protect Camille from scandal, she reluctantly agrees, but soon finds herself questioning the boundaries between pretense and reality. As they share an isolated cabin, will they overcome their misunderstandings and confront their complicated past that keeps them apart?