Faking it With the Player Next Door by Gina Cooper

Getting over a broken engagement is hard enough.
Getting over him—Van Willis—is impossible.

Van is my brother’s best friend and off-limits.
But rules don’t seem to apply when we’re this close.
The last thing I expected this summer was to fall for Van.
But when we’re caught in a compromising moment, he does the one thing I never saw coming—he claims I’m his.
We’re now in a fake relationship, and the lines between real and pretend are blurring.
I can’t tell if Van’s protecting my reputation or if he’s finally seeing me the way I’ve always seen him.
And just when I start believing in us, Van’s past crashes into the picture and my ex shows up.
This was never supposed to be real.
But maybe—just maybe—it could be.