Three doors. Three disasters. One chance at happily ever after.
Inside a historic Manhattan brownstone ruled by tyrannical co-op president Beatrice Kensington, three chaotic, colorful women keep crashing into the wrong neighbors—an austere architect, a severe cellist, a brooding antique restorer. Three fake relationships are invented on the spot to dodge her clipboard, complete with signed contracts, rehearsed touches, and rules that blur faster than anyone can rewrite them.
The performances were supposed to be temporary. The brownstone has other plans.
Spicy, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy where structure meets chaos—and every fake contract turns dangerously real.
Book 1 — The Neighbor Clause (Chloe & Julian)
“When sunshine-bright designer Chloe Vance moves in above Manhattan’s most exacting architect, their war over neon and noise detonates into a fake romance to fool the co-op board—and a contract of surrender neither of them meant to mean.”
Interior designer Chloe Vance arrives at the brownstone in marigold overalls and paint-splattered combat boots, ready to build the vibrant life her practical family swears she can’t handle. Within the hour she’s scuffed the marble, blasted the lobby, and earned a thirty-minute ultimatum from Julian Thorne—the austere architect downstairs who wields a silver fountain pen like a weapon and treats her joy like a code violation.
Then co-op president Beatrice Kensington catches Julian’s unauthorized renovation mid-inspection, and Chloe blurts the first lie that comes to mind: they’re madly in love. Suddenly they’re fake-dating to survive Beatrice’s clipboard—complete with a signed list of rules, rehearsed touches, and a private contract that blurs the line between performance and something dangerously real.
Julian’s structure is the first thing that’s ever quieted Chloe’s anxious, overextended mind. Her color is the first thing to crack his sterile control in years. To keep her home, her business, and the man who learned to love her loud, Chloe will have to stop apologizing for taking up space. And Julian will have to surrender the one thing he never does.
Book 2 — The Balcony Breach (Penelope & Arthur)
“When burned-out event planner Penelope Hayes buries her reclusive neighbor’s patio under a balcony avalanche of silver confetti, the severe cellist downstairs declares them engaged—and starts scheduling the one thing she’s never allowed herself: rest.”
Manhattan event planner Penelope Hayes runs her entire business out of a one-bedroom crammed with balloons, crates, and barely-contained panic. When a tower of metallic confetti tips off her balcony and buries the pristine patio of Arthur Sterling—the silent, severe cellist downstairs—co-op president Beatrice Kensington smells an eviction.
Arthur’s solution is immediate and outrageous: he announces they’re engaged. Now Penelope is performing a fiancée for the building’s tyrant while Arthur imposes a private regimen of mandated meals, thirty-minute spreadsheets, and one impossible command—stop. For the first time in years, the woman who never sits down is allowed to.
His structure becomes the anchor her frantic mind has been begging for. Her chaos becomes the first thing to thaw his sterile solitude. But the deeper she surrenders, the more his protection hardens into a cage—until Arthur does the cruelest, most loving thing he can imagine and walks away. To win back the man who fought for her in silence, she’ll have to prove she can be loved standing still, not just useful in motion.
Book 3 — The Fire Escape Ruse (Daisy & Elias)
“When plant-obsessed Daisy Harper’s botanical empire breaches the fire escape she shares with brooding antique restorer Elias Grant, the only way to dodge eviction is to pretend the war is love—and sign a contract that finally gives her roots.”
After a lifetime of transient apartments, botanical designer Daisy Harper hauls a fiddle-leaf fig up four flights and swears this brownstone is her forever home. The only obstacle is Elias Grant—the broad-shouldered furniture restorer downstairs who calls her by her surname, demands she keep her tendrils off his fire escape, and refuses every cheerful clipping she offers.
When her terra-cotta catastrophe and Beatrice Kensington’s wrath threaten to uproot her again, Elias does the unthinkable: he claims they’re together. Now Daisy is performing a girlfriend for Beatrice’s inspections while Elias structures her chaos with a meticulous contract—breakfast clauses, climate control, and a steadiness her restless heart has never known.
His order gives her roots. Her green, growing wildness softens his austere, silent world. But when his protection tightens into a cage and Daisy’s sunshine starts to fade, Elias tears up the contract to set her free. To keep the home and the man she fought for, Daisy will have to prove that roots and wildness can share the same soil—and Elias will have to learn that loving someone means giving them room to grow.
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