From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. The last thing he s looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realises she s the perfect decoy: a fake girlfriend to keep his family off his back until he s deployed. Harper was on her way to starting a new life . . . again. But something about Luke makes her want to settle down in this small town and make his house a home. Luke never thought he d feel this way about a woman again. But he knows that he can t tell her the truth about his dark past. And she can t reveal what she s running from. At least this isn t a real relationship. It s only for a month. It s only pretend. Until it isn t . . .
