Kristy Marie

The pretender is an enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about the boy next door and the girl who did the unthinkable to win his affection.Secrets.Lies.Betrayal.Mine and Sebastian's relationship wasn't built on the foundation of trust.It was built over war.A ruthless war that exposed who we really were.Enemies.Imposters.And Lovers.Sebastian and I would never be friends-not after what we did.But we could pretend-especially for the million-dollar prize-in a cutthroat film competition that would set our careers in motion.We needed this win to fix our reputations.But that's not what happened.They say money ruins relationships. I disagree.Love is the ultimate destroyer.Love ruined us.Love made us pretenders.

Kristy Marie brings all the feels in this heart wrenching, emotional journey of overcoming obstacles, and finding love in the most unexpected places. Blurb: Heartbreakingly beautiful and devastatingly annoying, Timaeus Lambros, a deaf, former military translator, has just been assigned as my co-teacher for the rest of the school year. His stupid-hot face gets on my nerves. So does his well-fitting jeans. Charming and gorgeous men like him should not be teachers. They should be locked away in a storage closet... with me.But that's just a teachers' lounge fantasy with a big dreamy sigh attached. Tim and I can never be a thing. He's broody and closed off, while I'm the new owner of a one-way ticket back to Costa Rica, thanks to budget cuts. But my abuelita always said life wasn't a fairytale. So even if Tim does have a magical tongue and a dreamy body, we still might not get a happily ever after.

Kristy Marie brings you a hilarious novella about the problem of loving your best friend. Possessive. Incorrigible. Mine.Theo Von Bremen was the worst roommate ever.With his arrogant attitude, rippled abs, and exaggerated sarcasm, he had a classic case of obliviousness. How many nights did we spend together, curled up on the sofa with a good movie? Hundreds? Thousands? Yet, every night we went to our separate rooms, firmly in the friend zone.But as our college graduation looms, our time as roommates comes to an end. Soon, our past will be buried under national titles and headlines of baseball's next MVP, Theo Von Bremen. My Theo.My competitor.My childhood love.As they say, nothing last forever, and every beginning has an end.In our case, the end was a simple proposal-one that changed everything.