by Avery Flynn
Part of The Hartigans
First published 2018
Lila is midway through a perfectly good hamburger when a stranger implies she'd have company if she'd ordered a salad instead. She goes silent, which almost never happens. Then Frankie Hartigan, a firefighter with good timing and better instincts, slides into the seat across from her and pretends they had plans. He glares at the jerk. He orders dinner. He acts like this is completely normal. Lila is grateful but suspicious. She does not need rescuing, and she tells him so. Then her high school reunion comes up, and before she can stop herself she has a fake date. Frankie says yes. Now Lila has to spend more time with a man who is funny, attractive, and almost certainly using her for reasons she has not figured out yet. This is not a story about changing herself. It is a story about two people who walked into something neither of them planned and have to decide what to do next. The central question is not whether Lila is enough. She already knows she is. The question is what Frankie actually wants, and whether either of them can be honest about it.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, feel-good, heartwarming, lighthearted, witty
Tropes: fake-dating, forced-proximity, grumpy-meets-sunshine
320 pages · ebook · Entangled: Amara