A Very Pretend Boyfriend by Scarlett Avery
He’s my ex-boyfriend’s hockey legend stepdad and completely off limits.
The first time I met the NHL All-Star legend was at the hockey player’s Hamptons cottage to celebrate his stepson’s twenty-fifth birthday. There was no forgetting Kazimir Lindström’s mesmerizing blue eyes or the permanent sexy scowl that creased his thick eyebrows.
When the universe throws my ex-boyfriend’s stepdad back into my life a year later, I’m at my lowest. Broke. Jobless. And thanks to my Peeping Tom superintendent, without a home.
On the heels of a nasty divorce that was splattered all over the gossip rags, the 6’4” tattooed, brooding grump needs an image rehab because of the PR disaster.
I’m not sure if it’s my desperation or his impulsive decision-making that causes the outrageous proposals to drop from his kissable lips. One of New York’s most eligible bachelors wants me to be his fake girlfriend. And he offers me a position as his social media manager. Oh, and he wants me to move in with him?
My bank balance is too anemic to refuse his offers. As long as we don’t blur our carefully drawn lines, I can pull this off…
Life with Kaz is so idyllic, I gaslight myself into believing a girl like me—born into a good-for-nothing family of thieves—can rewire her trailer trash DNA, and this fairytale can be my forever when I’m still holding onto a dark secret. One that if exposed, could taint Kaz’s reputation and ruin his empire.
