Dionne Lucas has one rule: no strings, no attachments, no exceptions. Relationships? Absolutely not. Love? A fairy tale for fools. She dates for fun, never for keeps, and when it’s over, she walks away without looking back. Rich, handsome, charming—it doesn’t matter. Love is a game, and Dionne refuses to lose herself in it.

But her carefree world is upended when she meets Charlotte Del Pierro—the fiercely protective, maddeningly uptight sister of Marcus, one of Dionne’s many flings. To Charlotte, Dionne is nothing more than a reckless heartbreaker, a walking red flag poised to ruin her brother’s life. And she makes her hatred very clear.

Dionne couldn’t care less about Charlotte’s high-and-mighty attitude. Charlotte refuses to be charmed by Dionne’s easygoing ways. They should have nothing to do with each other. And yet, every cutting remark, every heated glare, every accidental brush of skin leaves something behind—an unspoken tension that neither of them is ready to face.

Dionne isn’t interested in proving Charlotte wrong. Charlotte definitely isn’t interested in falling for a woman who doesn’t believe in love. But the more they fight it, the more the line between hate and desire begins to blur.

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