A ruthlessly controlled corporate fixer. A free-spirited local artisan. And a strictly professional fake engagement that's about to go completely up in flames.
Marcus Vance doesn’t do chaos. As the chief managing partner of Vance Sports Analytics, his life is a perfectly calibrated matrix of spreadsheets, non-disclosure agreements, and tailored three-piece suits. He controls the brands, the media, and the multi-million-dollar contracts for the Chicago Cougars franchise. But when a high-stakes corporate merger threatens his firm’s expansion, Marcus needs a flawless, wholesome public image—and he needs it immediately to appease traditionalist stakeholders.
Maya Lin is the exact definition of a variable Marcus cannot calculate. The eccentric, fiercely independent owner of Glacial Lakes’ most chaotic botanical shop is everything he avoids: unpredictable, uncurated, and entirely unimpressed by his corporate network. She runs her business on instinct, smells of lavender and soil, and considers Marcus a sterile, over-dressed intruder on the ridge. But when an administrative zoning error puts her shop’s commercial lease directly into Marcus's hands, she faces total ruin.
Marcus offers a cold, ruthless exchange: Play the role of his elegant, devoted fiancée for a single high-society media weekend in Chicago, and her shop’s lease is cleared for life.
The terms of the contract are absolute: No real feelings. No crossing clinical lines. Total compliance for the cameras.
But when an unscripted autumn snowstorm strands them inside a remote lakeside cabin with only one bed, the sterile boundaries of the agreement begin to melt. Marcus’s rigid control fractures against Maya’s bright, unfiltered warmth, and every forced touch behind the camera starts running dangerously hot. As the media spotlight turns blinding, Marcus realizes the most dangerous liability isn't the press uncovering the fake contract—it’s how desperately he wants to rip up the rules and make her his forever.
From author Avery Cross comes Off-Limits Contract, a full-length, high-steam contemporary sports romance. It is Book 3 in the Glacial Lakes Series. While the series features recurring teammates and local town characters, each book is a completely interconnected standalone following a different couple to a guaranteed Happily Ever After. Can be read in any order. No cliffhangers. No cheating.
Genre: Romance
Marcus Vance doesn’t do chaos. As the chief managing partner of Vance Sports Analytics, his life is a perfectly calibrated matrix of spreadsheets, non-disclosure agreements, and tailored three-piece suits. He controls the brands, the media, and the multi-million-dollar contracts for the Chicago Cougars franchise. But when a high-stakes corporate merger threatens his firm’s expansion, Marcus needs a flawless, wholesome public image—and he needs it immediately to appease traditionalist stakeholders.
Maya Lin is the exact definition of a variable Marcus cannot calculate. The eccentric, fiercely independent owner of Glacial Lakes’ most chaotic botanical shop is everything he avoids: unpredictable, uncurated, and entirely unimpressed by his corporate network. She runs her business on instinct, smells of lavender and soil, and considers Marcus a sterile, over-dressed intruder on the ridge. But when an administrative zoning error puts her shop’s commercial lease directly into Marcus's hands, she faces total ruin.
Marcus offers a cold, ruthless exchange: Play the role of his elegant, devoted fiancée for a single high-society media weekend in Chicago, and her shop’s lease is cleared for life.
The terms of the contract are absolute: No real feelings. No crossing clinical lines. Total compliance for the cameras.
But when an unscripted autumn snowstorm strands them inside a remote lakeside cabin with only one bed, the sterile boundaries of the agreement begin to melt. Marcus’s rigid control fractures against Maya’s bright, unfiltered warmth, and every forced touch behind the camera starts running dangerously hot. As the media spotlight turns blinding, Marcus realizes the most dangerous liability isn't the press uncovering the fake contract—it’s how desperately he wants to rip up the rules and make her his forever.
From author Avery Cross comes Off-Limits Contract, a full-length, high-steam contemporary sports romance. It is Book 3 in the Glacial Lakes Series. While the series features recurring teammates and local town characters, each book is a completely interconnected standalone following a different couple to a guaranteed Happily Ever After. Can be read in any order. No cliffhangers. No cheating.
Genre: Romance
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