the Atlanta Boyfriend: An Inside Perimeter Novel

Marcus Bell does not make impulsive decisions.He negotiates contracts, manages risk, and has built a very successful career by thinking several steps ahead.So telling a potential investor that he has a boyfriend is difficult to explain.Especially because he doesn't.Unfortunately, the investor is delighted. Even more unfortunately, Marcus and his imaginary boyfriend are now invited to a crucial weekend at Lake Oconee-one that could help secure financing for Juniper House, the historic Atlanta property Marcus and his longtime friend are determined to save.Marcus needs a solution.Theo Vaughn is charming, socially effortless, and one of Atlanta's best event producers. He's also been flirting with Marcus for nearly two years without getting much of a response.Until Marcus asks him to pretend they've been dating for nine months.Theo agrees.There will be rules.No unnecessary affection. No complicated feelings. No forgetting that this is temporary.Then there's one bed.A kiss nobody is watching.Coffee made exactly right.And the increasingly inconvenient discovery that Marcus has been noticing Theo far longer than either of them realized.But when professional pressure turns their relationship into something useful again, Theo refuses to be another problem Marcus can solve.Marcus knows how to negotiate almost anything.Keeping Theo will require something considerably harder.He'll have to stop negotiating and simply ask.The Atlanta Boyfriend is a witty, warm MM contemporary romance featuring fake dating, opposites attract, one bed, competent grown men, a long-standing crush, Atlanta charm, and a happily-ever-after. It is the first standalone romance in the Inside the Perimeter series.