Sloane Wilder doesn’t do messy. As the lethal PR director for the Ravens, her life is built on precision, control, and ensuring scandals never see the light of day. She certainly doesn’t do Jude Mercer, the unfairly charismatic public face of the rival Storm franchise, who looks at her like he wants to devour her brain and her body.
When a league-wide scandal detonates, Jude pitches a brilliant, unexpected solution: a joint PR front. Two rivals allied. It’s perfect optics. It’s also a catastrophic professional mistake.
Forced into hotel bars, late-night strategy sessions, and tight elevator rides, their manufactured alliance shatters their professional boundaries. Jude is determined to prove he’s more than a polished smile, and he wants Sloane to stop managing the world long enough to let him worship her. But in an industry where perception is everything, one slipped mask—or one leaked photo—could cost them the game.