ACT LIKE YOU LOVE ME
Ava Winters has one goal: survive college, graduate with honors, and pull her mother out of debt. Balancing two part-time jobs, a scholarship, and a mountain of responsibilities, Ava doesn’t have time for drama especially not the kind that wears designer suits and carries a name like Julian Blackwood.
Julian, heir to the Blackwood empire and he is arrogant, calculated, and completely untouchable. But when a scandal threatens his family’s reputation, he needs a girl who looks nothing like his usual arm candy. Someone smart, grounded... and desperate enough to play along.
Their worlds collide after a fiery first meeting and a very public “accident.” What starts as a fake arrangement, date to a gala, a carefully staged photo, a fabricated story, quickly spirals into something neither of them expected. Because the more Julian tries to use Ava to fix his image, the more he finds himself captivated by her resilience. And the more Ava tries to guard her heart, the more Julian threatens to break down every wall she’s built.
But secrets don’t stay buried, and emotions have a way of turning fiction into something dangerously real.
In a world where status is everything and trust is a luxury, can two people from opposite sides of life find something real in a relationship that was never supposed to be?