Part of Blue Heron, book 2
First published 2013
Honor Holland watches her lifelong crush get engaged to her best friend just three weeks after rejecting her. In tiny Manningsport, New York, moving on seems impossible when the dating pool barely exists. Tom Barlow faces his own crisis. The charming British professor loves his unofficial stepson Charlie, but his visa expires soon. He must find a way to stay in America or abandon the boy he considers family. Honor proposes a solution that could help them both. She offers Tom a marriage of convenience for his green card while making her ex jealous. The plan sounds simple enough. Honor will juggle her fake engagement, avoid her former best friend, and keep working at her family's vineyard. But pretending to be married proves more complicated than either expected. As Honor and Tom spend time together, their fake relationship starts feeling surprisingly real. What began as a practical arrangement might become something neither of them planned for.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake-dating, second-chance
Setting: Manningsport, New York
Period: 21st-century
448 pages · Kindle Edition · Harlequin HQN