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 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.

A Steamy Small Town Opposites Attract Romance. It was reckless. No names. No strings. A night I've dreamed about ever since. Now my fantasy lives next door. I came to Mill Creek to disappear. New town. New job. A quiet life where the biggest crisis is a cat with a \[nosy\] owner problem. Then the bartender next door came home from abroad. Tattooed. Shirtless—I mean shameless. Grinning at me like he knows exactly what I sound like when I fall apart. Because he does. He’s chaos wrapped in ink and a dangerous smile. He's loud when I need silence. Reckless when I crave control. He calls me wildflower like it's a dare. But he sees me—not the version I perform for everyone else. The one who wears black lace under pearl buttons and pretends she doesn't burn when he's close. I swore I'd never let another man have power over me. Gabe doesn't want power. He wants me. I'm finally learning what it feels like to be chosen instead of controlled. But the man I ran from just found my new address.