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The Studio Arrangement: A Fake Engagement, Forced Proximity Workplace Romance
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 4 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five hundred square feet. One queen bed. One fake engagement. And the one man she swore she'd never fall for.
Nora Vance has built her career on control. As a fiercely ambitious investigative reporter at The Metropolitan Wire, she knows exactly what she wants and exactly who stands in her way. Julian Cross is six-foot-three, infuriatingly stoic, devastatingly competent, and her biggest rival for the promotion that could change her life. They challenge each other's stories, dismantle each other's arguments, and compete over every inch of the newsroom. Falling for him isn't an option.
Then a bureaucratic nightmare threatens everything. An administrative error places Nora and Julian's joint application for the prestigious $250,000 Sterling Grant under a domestic cohabitation fellowship. To keep their careers and the money they have only six days to convince a ruthless auditor that they're a genuinely committed couple.
Their solution? Fake an engagement. Move in together. Don't catch feelings.
Simple, right?
Not when Julian's apartment is a cramped 500-square-foot studio with one bathroom, one queen bed, and absolutely nowhere to hide. They create a strict contract: no unnecessary touching, no emotional attachments, and no crossing the line between pretending and reality.
But rules become difficult to follow when Julian starts taking care of Nora in ways no fake fiancé should. When staged kisses linger a little too long. When sharing a bed stops feeling like an inconvenience and starts feeling dangerously natural. And when the man she thought she couldn't stand becomes the only person who makes her feel completely safe.
The closer they get, the harder it becomes to remember what's supposed to be fake.
But just when Nora begins to believe that Julian might actually be the man behind the walls she's spent her whole life building, their carefully constructed relationship is threatened by a rival determined to expose their secret and destroy everything they've worked for.
Nora has spent years believing that depending on someone is weakness. Julian has spent his life believing that loving someone means carrying their burdens alone.
Now they're about to discover that the most dangerous thing about a fake engagement isn't pretending to be in love.
It's realizing you never were pretending at all.
The Studio Arrangement is a steamy workplace rom-com packed with fake engagement, forced proximity, enemies-to-lovers tension, one-bed chemistry, sharp banter, possessive devotion, and a grumpy hero who falls first and falls hard.
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