Oz

Fake mates. Real feelings. And a town secret that changes everything.

I moved to Pine Gulch for a fresh start after a toxic ex made me question everything. My life here is simple: work odd jobs, nurse my lavender latte, and stick to my table at BrewHaha Beans while I build my dream spa one business plan page at a time. After my last relationship left me in pieces, simple feels like exactly what I need.

Then a stupidly handsome troll parks himself in my booth at the coffee shop and refuses to budge.

Wilder is big, bold, and absolutely insufferable. Due to unfortunate circumstances that were 100% not my fault, he ropes me into an absurd arrangement as his fake mate. It's the only way he can clinch the deal on the farm he's in town to buy. There's just one rule: Keep up the act so the lawyers don't realize our mating of convenience is all show.

Except this cowboy doesn't play fake the way I expected. He's attentive and looks at me like I'm something worth keeping. Every touch, every stolen glance across our now shared table, every moment he reaches for me like it's the most natural thing in the world makes the lines harder to hold. Suddenly the two of us are sharing a home and meals and are thrust together into a town mystery that goes back further than anyone can remember.

It turns out Pine Gulch's future hangs on our ability to help unearth her colorful past. But what if uncovering the truth puts everything we want in jeopardy? Humans have a saying about the best laid plans and I fear we're about to find out how true it is…