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Doesn't Count
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 10 2026
Pages: 520
Weight: 1.37
Height: 1.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Mara Whitaker knows exactly how love falls apart.
As one of Chicago's best divorce attorneys, she's spent thirteen years watching people discover that love isn't always enough. So when a lucrative opportunity requires her to spend eight weeks pretending to date Nolan Archer-the infuriatingly attractive man she's been trying not to want for years-Mara does what she does best.
She writes a contract.
The rules are simple: keep it professional, keep it temporary, and absolutely no sex.
Nolan has no problem agreeing.
Mostly because Mara's definition of sex turns out to be extremely specific.
What starts as a fake relationship quickly becomes a master class in loopholes. Staged kisses stop ending when the cameras do. Hotel rooms get complicated. Boundaries get creatively interpreted. And somewhere between destination shoots, stolen weekends, tangled sheets, and the kind of ordinary mornings neither of them planned for, pretending starts to feel dangerously real.
Nolan has always believed the best things are built to last.
Mara knows better than anyone that nothing comes with a guarantee.
But when the contract finally ends, they'll have to decide whether knowing something could break is a reason to walk away-
or a reason to choose it anyway.
Doesn't Count is a high-heat contemporary romantic comedy featuring fake dating, years of unresolved chemistry, contract loopholes, a filthy amount of banter, two successful adults falling inconveniently in love, and a hard-earned happily ever after.
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