A rigged reality show. A broken athlete. A producer who'll burn the script before she lets him fall for someone else.Lucas' career is hanging by a thread. Once the league's brightest star, an injury has benched him, and the only way his PR team sees to salvage his future news-casting career is a humiliating stunt: star on a love-matching reality show and "fall" for a fame-hungry influencer. Lucas hates everything about it... until he meets Isabella, the razor-sharp producer running the show like a chessboard.Isabella's job is simple: manufacture romance, boost ratings, and keep the network happy. But when Lucas walks on set, witty, wounded, and far too real, she feels something she has no business feeling. Worse, he feels it too. Determined to produce an award-winning show, Isabella continues quietly sabotaging the competition, unraveling dates, misdirecting drama, and rewriting the rules to steer him towards her favorite contestant.But Lucas is no pawn. As the show spirals into beautiful chaos, he starts digging beneath the glossy surface, uncovering Isabella's meddling and the network's hidden agenda. Their chemistry becomes impossible to deny, even as the finale forces Lucas to publicly decide between love and his career, right as a shadow from his past reemerges with secrets that could destroy them both.