Fake dating my best friend? Total disaster.
With his cocky grin and devilish charm, firefighter Lee Sullivan makes every woman in our small town swoon. Every woman except for me.
Which is why I’m shocked when he steps in at the town’s Matchmaker’s Gala and outbids my crush during the charity auction, committing us to six prearranged dates.
Six dates where we, very publicly, pretend to be falling in love.
Despite my objections and our efforts to set each other up with other people, Lee is convinced pretending to date each other is the perfect opportunity to get the women in town off his back (and out of his bed), while also helping to nudge my non-committal crush in the jealousy department.
Stupidly, I agree.
After the disastrous blind dates he set me up on, what’s a few months of letting Lee worship the ground I walk on? He owes me.
Trouble is––every fake kiss, every lingering touch, every filthy word he whispers when no one is around––is starting to feel very, very real.
We know everything about each other––from my orphaned past to his irrational hatred of dolls. The only secret I have ever kept from Lee spans all the way back to his time in the Army and it’s the one thing that could ruin our friendship forever.
Because where Lee is concerned, I have learned to guard my heart. Suddenly, he’s asking for the opportunity to feel something real.
He’s asking for the one thing he wouldn’t want if he ever knew the truth: one chance.
This is my favorite book in the series so far because Lee and Annie are my favorite couple of the series. Though I liked them all, these two have a long and crazy backstory that complicates everything. Lee’s high school sweetheart died dramatically while he was realizing they’re not right for each other. He was the first on scene and Margo died in his arms. Annie has been his best friend since then and he wants more but he’s afraid of ruining things between them. Since he won’t admit his attraction to his bestie, he has no idea she feels the same.
Annie definitely wants Lee as much as he wants her, but she has no idea he wants her at all. He’s never let on. She tells herself they wouldn’t be right for each other, but she doesn’t seem to believe it. She’s also worried about destroying their relationship but the biggest thing holding her back is that the Sullivans are her only family. Lee’s family adopted her long ago. Annie has no family of her own and grew up in foster care. She was best friends with Kate for years, but her friendship with Lee seems to eclipse all others.
It doesn’t take much fake dating for everyone to get restless and wonder ‘what if?’ Lee feels guilty that his last conversation with Margo was an argument and everyone thinks he loved her too much to move on, but that’s not right. He wants Annie and nobody else, so he’s never been able to connect with anyone on any deeper level, since she already has his heart.
They have a lot to work through but it’s fun seeing them do it and I love the supporting cast. Their story is sweet, steamy and funny with a little suspense and I loved everything about it.
