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Kelsea Hodges is on hookup hiatus. Amazing friends, a love-muffin feline, and a curated satchel of Richards are all the “HEA” she needs. Then hometown crush Derrick “Husky” Gamble upends her entire life.

The bad: his gaming group is down a player on the eve of competition, threatening the life-changing contract Husky’s hoping for. The worse: his friends ask Kelsea to fill in and the chemistry’s so hot they go viral. Now everything is on the line.

With social media and their friends pushing for more, Kelsea and Husky agree to play along, but the flirtier it gets, the more the lines blur. Fearing a repeat of the dating drama implosion that tanked last year’s contest, sponsors demand they keep the spice in the fantasy realm—or else.

No problem! It’s not like either of them harbors a secret crush dating back to high school…