Reine Churchill

Lina Thompson has three rules for romance: keep it casual, keep it temporary, and for the love of God, don't fall in love. Waking up naked beside a gorgeous stranger after the best one-night stand of her life? Perfectly within the rules. Discovering a few days later that Gorgeous Stranger is actually Connor Montgomery, the man hired to build the biggest project of her career? Less ideal. Especially because Connor has rules of his own. He doesn't do casual. He wants the whole ridiculous package: love, marriage, kids, Sunday dinners, and something built to last. So they agree on the only sensible solution: Friends. Friends who flirt constantly. Friends who leave increasingly inappropriate notes in lunch bags. Friends who definitely remember what the other looks like naked. And eventually, friends who are very bad at being just friends. Somewhere along the way, friendship starts looking a lot like Connor's toothbrush beside hers. His shoes by the door. Weekly dinners with her family. A man who sees exactly how much Lina loves her work—and never asks her to love it any less. Connor's job in Whynot was always supposed to end. Lina was always supposed to be fine when he left. And falling for each other was definitely never part of the plans. Unfortunately, those plans may have been poorly constructed.