Destructively Mine

Phoebe Graves grew up among con artists, trained from childhood to swindle the rich. Together with her best friend, Hailey Tinrock, she has walked away from that life and settled in a wealthy college town in Connecticut. Both women intend to live honestly.

The plan has a crack in it. Phoebe is fake-dating the son of an uber-wealthy, influential family, while her real feelings are growing for Brayden, known as Rocky, who is Hailey's older brother. Keeping those two relationships apart is already a strain.

Then Phoebe's mother turns up without warning, carrying matchmaking schemes of her own. Her arrival puts at risk the love, the friendships and the settled happiness Phoebe has built. To protect them, Phoebe has to go back to the old games she swore off, and she has to win.

This is a contemporary romance with a con-artist backdrop, so deception and scheming drive the plot alongside the attraction between Phoebe and Rocky. The tone is romantic and playful, with twists built on cons and a heated pull between the leads. It is written by the sister duo behind the Addicted series.