Tropes:
- Fake dating
- Ex-bodyguard x model 
- Brothers best friend 
- Found family 
- Possessive mmc 
- Open door spice (18+)
 
Marisol Deo has spent the last three years with one thing on her mind: her career. 
 
But when her reputation as a model comes crashing down at the hands of her ex-boyfriend and agent, she finds herself at the mercy of the media and desperate for work. And after a night out leaves her vulnerable, and photographed with one of her brother’s best friends, the solution is obvious. 
 
Leo Romano has been back in Ruby Cove for two years, the small town familiarity of where he grew up providing a quiet refuge after he walked away from his security firm. But when the girl he’s been fawning over for years proposes a fake relationship to help fix her reputation, she’s asking more from him than just a fake boyfriend—she’s asking him to go back to the one place he’s been running from. The one place where he can’t escape his past.
 
As Marisol’s career starts to take off again, and she and Leo grow closer, the time spent back in the city begins to wear on him, and Marisol begins to wonder if the life she’s worked so hard to get back is one really worth living. 
 
Is Leo’s love for Marisol enough to keep him by her side and face his trauma? Or will his past catch up to the both of them, and put a stop to their connection?