Rust Canyon

Going home for the holidays is never easy. But it's next to impossible when you've just been dumped. Just when I think it can't get any worse, my grad school nemesis, billionaire playboy Macallan Blaze, finds me sulking, trying to figure out a Plan B. Life's a game to him, so when he offers to stand in as my fake boyfriend, I think he's joking. But he's dead serious. And it's not like I can afford to turn him down. My tiny hometown only consists of 600 residents, where everyone knows everyone, and gossip spreads faster than wildfire. Of freaking course, everyone falls in love with Mac the minute they meet him, and it's like he grew up in Rust Canyon. But when he lets the cocky facade slip and shows peeks of the man behind the mask, I start to think that maybe I shouldn't have been so quick to judge. The scariest part of all is that I might actually like him.

At eighteen, I left my hometown in the rearview mirror, vowing to never return. Ten years later, my best friend is getting married, and I have to make a choice: set foot back in Rust Canyon, where painful memories of the past lurk around every corner, or let down the only person who's always been there for me. I convinced myself it would be fine, that I could put my blinders on and make it through a single week. Except one very important detail wasn't brought to my attention until it was too late. Tucker Grant, the reason for my self-imposed decade-long exile, is the best man to my maid of honor. I wish I could forget that he'd promised me forever, only to rip the rug out from beneath me when he married another woman. But that teenage heartbreak shattered my heart, and it hasn't been the same since. Though when the truth comes to light, it has me questioning everything and wondering, can one spark reignite an old flame?