I came to this city to survive?not to end up fake-married to a politician with a smile sharp enough to cut and a reputation louder than his campaign ads.

But now all I see is Carter Beckett.
Golden boy. Reformed street kid. Playboy with an approval rating problem.

He's everything I should never touch.
And everything I can't seem to walk away from.

It doesn't matter that he's gorgeous in that impossible, carved-from-sunlight way.
Or that he listens when no one else ever has.
Or that his kiss made my knees buckle like I'd been waiting my whole life for it.

He's rich, powerful, reckless?and I'm the rent boy hired to clean up his image.

The public thinks we're the perfect couple.
They don't know I'm hiding bruises beneath tailored suits.
They don't know he saw right through me the first night and refused to look away.

He's fire and charm and danger wrapped in a tailored jacket.
I'm the secret he should never want.

But the way he touches me says he wants everything?my past, my scars, my heart.

Carter Beckett is the last man I should fall for.
And the only one who's ever fought for me like I'm worth saving.

He might just be the one lie I want to live in forever.