Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer she\u2019ll never forget.<\/b><\/p>\n
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyone\u2019s long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot water\u2014and her career in a hot mess\u2014her uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she can\u2019t refuse: come to his glamorous summer home and pose as the long-lost daughter he believes his conniving family has hidden from him. In exchange? Time away from her actual life…and the chance to help uncover a long-buried secret.<\/p>\n
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico Hever: her client\u2019s maddeningly perfect right-hand man. He\u2019s organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nico\u2019s the only person she can trust to have her back. As they navigate a world of eccentric matriarchs, class divides, and private family feuds, their chemistry is as undeniable as it is ill-timed.<\/p>\n
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerie\u2019s summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.<\/p>\n