The Publicity Stunt Gone Real - Paperback

He needed a reputation. She needed an audience. Neither needed the truth to get complicated.

Mason Johnson has a problem. Chicago's most celebrated quarterback just signed a $250 million contract, and the media is busy torching his image with a Playboy narrative he never earned. His agent's solution: six months, one contract, one carefully chosen woman the world will believe finally made him settle down.

Olivia Stern has a different problem. A classical prodigy who gambled everything on a crossover album, she's watching her label lose faith in real time. What Midnight Frequencies needs isn't more rehearsal. It needs a headline. It needs Mason Johnson's forty million followers and the cameras that follow him everywhere.

The contract is clean. The terms are clear. The exit strategy is airtight.

Except no one accounted for the way he watches her hands when she plays, like he's trying to memorize something he knows he shouldn't keep. Or the way she stops performing somewhere around month two, and what's underneath is so much harder to look away from.

By month three, they're out of excuses. And the only thing standing between them and something real... is the agreement that started all of it.

The Publicity Stunt Gone Real is a slow-burn sports romance about two people hired to look like they're in love, who forgot to stop.

Some contracts have fine print nobody reads until it's too late.