Category: Adults, Contemporary, Romance
Language: EnglishKeywords: Beach/lakefront Setting Class & Wealth Divide Fake Heiress Feelâgood Contemporary Rom-com Light Mystery (family Secret Feel) M/F Romance Opposites Attract Redemption Arc Summer Romance Tennis Coach Hero (Nico)
Written by Lily Chu
Read by Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer sheâll never forget.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyoneâs long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot waterâand her career in a hot messâher uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she canât 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.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico Hever: her clientâs maddeningly perfect right-hand man. Heâs organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nicoâs 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.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerieâs summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.
Fake heiress. Real secrets. One sizzling summer sheâll never forget.
Event planner Valerie Peng never planned on spending her summer sipping champagne at a lakefront estate, dodging suspicious socialites, or pretending to be anyoneâs long-lost daughter. But when a very public, deeply mortifying mishap lands her in hot waterâand her career in a hot messâher uber-wealthy older client makes her an offer she canât 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.
But Cinderella needs some magic for this big of a makeover. Enter Nico Hever: her clientâs maddeningly perfect right-hand man. Heâs organized, meticulous, impossible to read, and infuriatingly handsome. But even though he claims this scheme is a capital-M Mistake, Nicoâs 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.
Caught between pretending to belong and unexpectedly finding where she truly fits in, Valerieâs summer is about to get far more complicated than she ever planned.