One bachelor auction. One fake marriage. One ex-wife with a grudge.

Now I’m living with the town’s grumpiest vet— and I’ve officially lost control of this dumpster fire. Send wine.

Jake Rivers.

Single dad.

Stupidly, devastatingly, ruin-your-sanity hot.

Mill Creek’s town council gave him thirty days to prove he’s “stable” and “family-focused”…

or lose his clinic.

Lucky for him—he’s got me.

My solution? Fake marriage.

The rules were simple: no feelings. No complications. Definitely no… (ahem) touching.

Then he kissed me.

Pinned against his barn wall. Hand in my hair. Body pressed against mine.

Chemistry that would make my science classroom explode.

Now I'm wearing his grandmother's ring, living in his farmhouse,

and every time he looks at me, I forget this marriage is fake… and that I have dignity.

But his conniving ex is manipulating the town council.

She wants Jake humiliated.

Wants to take it all—

his clinic.

His daughter.

If she finds out we’re faking?

He loses everything.

And I might lose the one thing I never meant to want.