2025 reread: I love this book! I have a personal connection to the first one, the third one I just love so much, but this one I really do think is my favorite as far as both main characters and their fake dating story. Danica (Dani) is a professor and has become workplace acquaintances/friends with her building's security guard Zafir (Zaf). She doesn't do feelings, doesn't date or consider falling in love, and doesn't know he has a thing for her. Then a video of him rescuing her from an elevator during a fire drill goes viral and in order to help his charity, she agrees to fake date him for publicity. They spend time together and end up becoming best friends, her learning about his life and anxiety, and him helping her live a more balanced life outside of work. Then they become friends with benefits and when the real feelings are finally acknowledged things go awry. Talia Hibbert has such a great way of writing, with ridiculous but smart humor, as well as nuanced characters who deal with disabilities, grief, past hurts, etc. always will be a fave of mine, and I enjoyed the audio quite a bit (it's a different narrator to the first book and I like her better).