My return home to my family’s small town hasn’t been easy, but the new female contractor I hired—a struggling but strong willed single mom—keeps stripping her clothes off on the job site, which certainly spices things up. (She swears a spider crawled under her shirt.) She also divulges she’s scared of her ex and he’s taking her to court for custody of their daughter. I hate to see a woman mistreated, so I step up and marry her so she has a stronger case in front of the judge. Temporarily, of course. As a retired millionaire, I’ve had my fair share of women use me for my wealth. I’ve given up on finding my happily ever after and I’m okay with it. I just need to find something else to do with the second half of my life. My new wife, Emmerleigh Slaywright, has spicy comebacks galore, a stubborn streak a mile wide, and the kind of bellow on the job site that can unman even the toughest of workers. Add in her pint-sized daughter, Georgia, who loves the animals on our hobby farm and has me wrapped around her pinkie finger, and I’m not sure why I pushed for the marriage to be fake. One night, all the tension between us boils over and Em gives up control. (Only in the bedroom and I’m very okay with it.) Suddenly she wants the marriage annulled, so she’s not taking advantage of me. Right when I think I want to make this marriage real. She might think she’s looking out for me, but she doesn’t understand that Em and Georgia have become the future I thought I’d never have. How can I convince her they’re the package deal I want?

The last person I expected to run into when I moved back home was my ex-wife, Tully Cassio—my high school sweetheart, the love of my life, the woman I hated as much as I still loved. She dumped me nineteen years ago and moved to Hollywood, quickly becoming a star and leaving our marriage in the dust. My dad’s last wish included me moving back home and joining the local fire department. I agreed, mostly to be there to take care of Mom. But apparently, I’m not the only one back in Blueball, and now I’m somehow working with Tully on the fundraiser needed to keep the fire station open and me in a job. On the one hand, seeing her again is everything I’ve ever wanted. On the other hand, I’ve harbored a lot of anger toward her over the years. After all, she damaged my pride and took my heart with her when she left town. She’s still a gorgeous spitfire, however, and doesn’t take my snarky comments lying down. Which means our fights start with a tiny spark of leftover attraction and billow into an inferno of feelings and frustration and…well…other F-words. Instead of dumping water on this situation, we let it burn. In secret. Except nothing in a small town stays a secret for long. Soon everyone knows that the crush I’ve had on this woman since freshman year of high school hasn’t gone away just because she handed me divorce papers. Now my pride’s on the line again…along with my heart. Because this town has always been too small for Tully, and her agent just called with the offer of a lifetime. An Ex Affair is a steamy small town romance between an intense firefighter and the woman who divorced him nineteen years ago. As old wounds heal and sparks begin to fly again, their love story comes with plenty of angsty baggage, family and friends rooting for their second chance, sizzling banter as they rediscover who they are years later, and a heroine determined to heal the heart she broke. This story of redemption and forgiveness ends with a love hot enough to melt the coldest of hearts.