Dolly Brick has spent years being the person everyone can count on. As a single mother, she is used to putting her own needs last, but a summer return to the Rhode Island coast brings a fresh set of responsibilities: helping her father and brother hold on to the family home while raising her son. When she stops to assist Stewart Whitfield after a flat tire and a highly public breakup, Dolly expects to do a good deed and move on. Instead, Stewart proposes a pretend relationship that draws her into his carefully managed world of public appearances, seaside gatherings, and family expectations. What starts as an arrangement becomes harder to separate from genuine attraction. Between sailing excursions, unexpected tenderness, and the pressure of keeping up appearances, Dolly faces a question she has avoided for years: can she allow someone else to show up for her? A warm, witty contemporary romance about family loyalty, independence, and the courage to accept love when it is offered.
