The No-Kiss Deal

The deal has five rules. Rule three should be the easiest: no kissing for the campaign.

Maren Quill knows how to turn other people into stories. Rafe Calder refuses to become one.

But when their trackside argument goes viral, Crownline Academy's biggest sponsor sees chemistry where they see disaster-and offers them a deal neither can afford to refuse.

For six weeks, media-strategy student Maren and scholarship racing prodigy Rafe must fake a relationship through staged coffee dates, sponsor events, trackside appearances, and the most important Showcase of their lives.

She needs the internship.
He needs the development contract.
And their carefully written rules are supposed to keep everything professional.

Then the cameras stop rolling.

Behind Rafe's silence is a family counting on him. Behind Maren's perfect plans is a humiliation she has spent years trying to outrun. And the closer they get, the harder it becomes to tell where the campaign ends and something real begins.

Because a contract can control every public touch.

It cannot control what happens when the pretending stops feeling fake.

The No-Kiss Deal is a heartfelt, low-spice college motorsport romance with fake dating, opposites attract, forced proximity, slow-burn tension, off-camera longing, emotional vulnerability, and a satisfying happily-ever-after.