Jaclyn Beckett would rather join the university yearbook oversight committee than fall in love. Sure, she has needs, but she’s never had any problem finding a one-night stand. But lately, her mother has taken too keen an interest in Jaclyn’s love life, to the point of setting her up with a series of men who are all wrong for her.
Rhys Blackwell fell for Jaclyn the moment they met. Four years into their friendship, and he’s finally giving up on the hope that she’ll ever see him as more than a friend. That is, until she kisses him at her friends’ wedding.
What starts as a way to get Jaclyn’s mom off her back soon spirals into a complicated lie involving the entire town of Sapling Grove. But the longer she and Rhys pretend to date, the more it feels like Jaclyn is lying to herself instead of to everyone else.