She asked the wrong guy to teach her about seduction.
Dakota Hart has spent nineteen years being invisible—the nerdy twin sister of the campus hockey star, more comfortable with chemical equations than conversations. So when she finally works up the courage to catch the attention of her lab partner, she makes a desperate deal with the one man who knows how to make any woman fall: her brother's devastatingly gorgeous best friend, Owen Thompson.
The rules are simple: Owen teaches her the art of seduction, and she helps him pass chemistry. No feelings. No complications. Just fake dates and harmless flirting lessons.
But Owen Thompson doesn't do simple.
The senior hockey captain has built a reputation on casual hookups and zero commitments, but something about Luke's shy little sister makes him want to break every promise he's made to himself. Each tutoring session blurs the lines between teacher and temptation. Every staged kiss for her lab partner's benefit feels painfully real. And when Dakota looks at him with those warm brown eyes, Owen realizes he's not teaching her how to seduce another man—he's falling for her himself.
Now the player who swore he'd never settle down is fighting for the one girl he was supposed to let go. The girl who's off-limits. The girl who could cost him his best friend. The girl who's become the only one he can't walk away from.
But can a reformed playboy convince the woman who's always lived in the shadows that she's worth risking everything for?
A sizzling contemporary romance about fake relationships that become all too real, forbidden attraction that can't be denied, and discovering that sometimes the person you've been looking for has been right in front of you all along.