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The Lease on Love: A Forced Proximity Contemporary Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She's being evicted from the life she built. He's the attorney who knows exactly how landlords win-because he never loses.
Interior designer Olivia Brooks has thirty days to leave her Upper West Side studio, and the timing couldn't be worse: clients are backing out, bills are piling up, and New York isn't the kind of city that waits for you to catch your breath.
Ethan Cole offers a solution she can't afford to refuse-an empty guest apartment next door to him, strict rules, and a plan to fight back. It's temporary. Professional. Safe.
Until one photo, one rumor, and one too-convenient boyfriend assumption turns their arrangement into a public narrative neither of them asked for.
As anonymous messages escalate and Ethan's past resurfaces with a vendetta, Olivia must decide what's harder: letting the world rewrite her story-or trusting a man whose version of love is built on boundaries, choice, and showing up.
Tropes you'll love:
Forced proximity
Slow burn
Protective (but respectful) hero
We have rules
Private love, public pressure
Found safety
Closed-door / low spice vibe
A grounded, modern romance with emotional depth-and a heroine who learns to stop abandoning herself.
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