Vivienne Castellanos is a master of survival dating—sharp, multilingual, and practiced at turning charm into safety. Then Kieran Thorne arrives: awkward, modest, seemingly ordinary. He cooks for her. He pays her brother’s bills without fanfare. He insists he’s just a small-time founder. Vivienne’s instincts shout fraud. Her heart says risk. As secrets leak and a powerful rival reappears with a marriage-sized offer, she must choose between the cold math of security and the dangerous promise of partnership.
A propulsive, morally acute romance of class, deception, and the cost of choosing love over leverage. Fans of Celeste Ng and Liane Moriarty will devour this.
Jobic Chakalisa is the bestselling author of The Siberian Nightmare, Target: Tehran, and North Korea's Secret Weapon.
He currently lives in Chicago. He has always been a movie lover, and this certainly shines through in the way he writes his novels. You won't get lost in over-description, time will never be wasted on characters that have nothing to do with the story, and every single chapter has meaning.
Jobic has only ever had one goal with his work, and that is to entertain. And he hopes your escape into his pages have at the very least done that.