Fake Date at Midnight
A One-Night Thriller

About this book:

She has until midnight to pay her rent. He has until morning to save his company. One fake date should solve both problems—until the gala becomes a battlefield.

Maya Vance is nineteen dollars from eviction when Julian Mercer slides into her booth with a proposition: ten thousand dollars now, ten thousand at dawn, for four hours playing the devoted girlfriend at Manhattan's most exclusive charity gala. No touching, no complications, just a shield against the sharks circling his boardroom coup. But the St. Jude Hotel isn't just a ballroom—it's a fortress of old money, darker secrets, and enemies who don't bluff. When the lights cut at midnight and a body hits the velvet carpet, Maya realizes her role isn't arm candy. It's alibi.

Trapped in a penthouse with no exits, hunted by power players who kill to keep their secrets, Maya has to decide whether the man who bought her night is the only one who can keep her alive—or the one who set her up. The clock is ticking. Daylight breaks in six hours. And the only way out is through the lies they've both been telling.