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📖 Paperback Edition — They said “for appearances.” Then the appearances got very, very real.

Alyx Monroe is six weeks from making partner at a prestigious architecture firm. One problem: she told a white lie about being in a relationship, and now there’s a four-day couples’ retreat where she needs to produce a wife. Fast.

Riley Hart is her roommate of eighteen months. She’s a freelance illustrator who works from home, knows Alyx’s routines, coffee order, and sleep habits. She’s also been quietly in love with Alyx for most of that time and has never said a word.

When Alyx asks Riley to play her wife for the retreat, Riley says yes before the sentence is finished. She tells herself it’s a favor. She knows it’s not.

The retreat goes too well. The partners love Riley. The lie extends — a firm dinner, a client event, a holiday party. They start sleeping in the same bed because it’s “easier.” They start kissing goodbye because it’s “habit.” They start having sex because the tension became physically unbearable and the excuses ran out.

Now they’re living a marriage that doesn’t exist on paper but does in every other way, and the only thing more terrifying than getting caught is admitting the truth: they don’t want to stop.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • Sapphic Fake Marriage Romance by Aurora North

Tropes: Fake Marriage • Roommates to Lovers • Forced Proximity • One Bed • Mutual Pining • Slow Burn • Domesticity Kink • HEA

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter. The ebook edition comes free with your paperback, emailed right after checkout.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic FF scenes), strong language, workplace power dynamics, and depictions of anxiety and emotional avoidance. Intended for readers 18+.

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