First published 2022
Cassandra Reynolds built a business out of spotting liars. From a college favor for a friend who feared she'd been catfished, she grew The Ex Files into a matchmaking service in Ocean View where she personally dates prospective matches to screen them. She goes on dates nearly every day, and every man she meets performs, hides something, or both. After years of watching other people find love, Cassandra has stopped trying for herself. Then her father's wedding arrives, and she has no one to bring. Enter Luke Dawson, a mechanic who stops to help a woman stranded on the side of the road and ends up paired with Cassandra through a setup arranged by his own sisters. One date is enough for Luke to stop thinking about a match and start thinking about her. But Cassandra runs her life by rules she wrote to keep herself from getting hurt, and Luke keeps running straight into them. He wants past her walls. She built them for a reason. The question is whether the woman who makes love work for everyone else can let it work for her.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: charming, emotional, heartwarming, intimate, witty
Tropes: emotional-walls, fake-dating, forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers
Setting: Ocean View
282 pages · Paperback · Morgan Elizabeth