COVER REVEAL date:
monday, december 7
genre:
ROMANce
Spice Level: Medium
WHAT YOU’LL FIND:
MM Romance
Nurse + Celebrity PA
Fake Dating
Forced Proximity
Hurt/Comfort
Meddling Moms
Synopsis:
Everyone told Darius to break a leg. Nobody expected Elijah to be the man who got him back on his feet.
Emergency nurse Elijah Heywood can stay steady through anything: chest compressions, trauma codes, his father’s critical voice in his head. But he can barely string two words together around celebrity PA Darius Azadi, the man he’s been quietly crushing on—who doesn’t even know Elijah exists.
Darius has spent seven years thinking on his feet and preventing every crisis. But when he spots a string of flickering lights at his best friend’s wedding, he climbs a ladder to fix them himself—and gets carried off the dance floor on a stretcher with a concussion and a shattered leg.
Elijah rushes to his side, keeping him calm until the EMTs arrive. But when it’s time to hand off his patient, Elijah tells the easiest lie of his life to get into the ambulance: he’s Darius’s boyfriend.
It was only supposed to last until morning.
Then Darius wakes up with a concussion, a leg full of titanium, and no memory of acquiring a boyfriend. His relationships usually fizzle before they catch fire, but he isn’t about to look a gift boyfriend in the mouth—not when the alternative is his moms airlifting him home before the swelling goes down.
When Elijah offers him a place to recover, Darius moves into the tiny studio above Elijah’s sister’s garage. The lie is only supposed to last until his moms leave.
Then Darius charms Elijah’s coworkers as the devoted boyfriend they’ve always hoped he would find. Elijah has spent years watching everyone he loves find their person, and he can’t bear to correct them—not when pretending Darius is his lets him experience what it’s like to be chosen.
So they move the deadline one last time: fake it until the cast comes off.
Then Darius charms Elijah’s coworkers as the devoted boyfriend they’ve always wanted him to find. Elijah can’t bring himself to tell them the truth, so the deadline moves again: They’ll fake it until the cast comes off.
For Darius, the arrangement offers independence from his overprotective moms. For Elijah, it means borrowing the relationship he’s always wanted—and knowing exactly when he has to give it back.
But somewhere between a daring rescue by a pint-sized knight, a slump-buster kiss that’s anything but rusty, and a birthday surprise nine years and twenty-two cities in the making, their performance starts to go off-script.
The cast will come off. What if neither of them is ready to walk away?
A fake-dating, hurt/comfort, forced-proximity MM romance featuring one broken leg, meddling moms, a belated birthday surprise, a slump-buster kiss that’s anything but rusty, a nurse who puts everyone else first, and a celebrity PA who wonders when he stopped playing a part.
