Nina Mason has two truths: she’s a fake heiress living on borrowed prestige — and she’s excellent at calculating risks. After a past life ended in poverty and a sudden death, she vows this time to survive on one rule only: make money, then vanish. When Ethan Lucas, a poised heir desperate to quiet his mother’s matchmaking, offers one million dollars to play his girlfriend for six months, Nina says yes without hesitation. She also demands an apartment — a tidy exit plan. But when her fake romance turns into a public betrayal at her own birthday and the real heiress, Maya Hart, appears to reclaim everything Nina thought she had, Nina has to choose: cling to a scripted lie for cash, or bet on an unexpected partnership with Gunnar Dickerson — an underdog whose startup she bankrolls. Alliances shift, a family’s rotten secrets surface, and Nina discovers that surviving may mean something more dangerous — falling in love for real. Who will she trust when everyone’s playing a role?

15 Chapters