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The Placeholder

Serenade Kincaid has lost everything: her stepchildren, her house, half her earnings, her sports car, and her husband, all to a much younger - and more fertile - woman.

Sera drinks boxed wine from a plastic cup, lives in a rundown motel, and scrolls dating apps in search of a semi-decent, not-a-serial-killer, just-hold-my-hand kind of man.

As she hopscotches through mediocre dates, her snarky, meddling boss (and occasional best friend), Carolyn, suggests a temporary solution: a friend with benefits. Just until Prince Charming shows up.

Enter Zac—a self-proclaimed bad bet who looks like he wandered off the cover of a romance novel. He’s only in it for fun. Perfect. Let the booty calls begin.

But casual gets complicated, and Sera isn’t as good at boundaries as she thought. When life throws a curveball, the trio must untangle a mess of secrets before everything falls apart—for good.

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