The Accidental Fiancé

Poppy Hartwell's carefully ordered life implodes the moment an oat milk latte leaves her hand and lands on the chest of Reid Kingsley, Manhattan's most infamously private billionaire. A crowd forms. A phone records. By the time Poppy wipes the foam from his tie, the internet has already married her off, and Reid sees an opportunity neither of them expected. Desperate to outmaneuver a hostile board and a meddling family, he proposes a ruthless deal: Poppy plays his doting fiancée for the season, and he'll erase the crushing debt hanging over her future. The terms are airtight, the chemistry undeniable, and the rules absolute, no real feelings, no slip-ups, no second chances at the altar. But Reid's mother is sharper than a boardroom shark, his sister keeps a detailed dossier on everyone who gets close, and the cold, calculating figure waiting in the wings has secrets that could detonate both their lives. As Manhattan galas blur into whispered arguments and staged moments start to feel dangerously real, Poppy and Reid must decide whether walking away from the arrangement is the smart play, or the biggest mistake of their lives.