Ethan Caldwell doesn’t do messy. As a polished corporate attorney, his life runs on 
precision—until an impulsive lie about having a boyfriend forces him to find one, fast. The 
only person who comes to mind? Jamie Moreno: muralist, free spirit, and the polar 
opposite of Ethan’s carefully curated world. 
Jamie isn’t sure what’s stranger—that Ethan remembers him from a chance meeting, or 
that he’s willing to pay for a fake relationship. But money for his community art program is 
hard to turn down… even if pretending to date a buttoned-up lawyer wasn’t on his vision 
board. 
The deal is simple: play the part, attend the galas, smile for the cameras. But with every 
public appearance, every late-night conversation, the lines between arrangement and 
something real start to blur. 
When the contract runs out, will they be able to walk away—or will the feelings neither of 
them expected rewrite the fine print?

"Contractually Yours"

by Sage Merrick