Harper Styles can't believe she's really doing this. It's one thing to take a job as an escort to pay her way through college. It's another thing to fly to Iowa and pretend to be some stranger's girlfriend so that he can get through a wedding without his family climbing all over him. She's outside of the airport when she meets possibly the most beautiful man she's ever seen. Later, in the first class lounge, she realises that this man is her client: Slate, world-famous drummer for Black Lilith. Slate needs a girlfriend to deflect his parents' attention from his womanising, rockstar lifestyle. Unable to convince his best friends to lend him their girlfriends, he's resorted to hiring an escort to pretend to be his lover and smooth the rough relationship he has with his family. She asks him for his real name, but he gives her a coy smile that makes her weak at the knees. He also makes it absolutely clear that he will not sleep with a woman he's paying - as long as she is technically his employee, he will not take advantage. But the chemistry between them is immediate. Harper can be anything a man needs, but she's starting to realise that what Slate really needs is a woman to break through his walls.