The Project Room

Sadie Okonjo can build anything except a case for herself. Her boss needs a girlfriend by Friday. So Dominic Ferrer, founder of Ferrer Systems, makes an offer that is technically legal: six weeks of pretend, one client dinner at a time, and in exchange he'll fund her equity and sign her name onto the patent she wrote. Rules are simple. Hand-holding in public. Separate beds. A rehearsed first date that never has to be true. It works perfectly until week four, when Sadie can't remember which parts she's faking. And then Camille Bainbridge joins the committee — the ex who knows exactly how long Sadie and Dominic have actually known each other. One confession, in a room full of clients, will either win the account or burn the whole thing down. Sadie's done pretending. She just has to say it out loud.