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He’s grumpy, boring, and thinks it’s okay to wear a suit and tie to a small town bar full of lumberjacks. But when I kiss him? Let’s just say I wasn’t expecting THAT.
Harper Cole
It’s one thing to be dumped by the huge Hollywood star you thought you were going to marry. It’s quite another to move back to the small town you’re both from.
As a booby prize for being shown the door by Dex Ryan, everyone is trying to set me up with their son, their nephew, or their long-lost cousin’s gardener. Either that or they’re throwing me pitying looks that say, “You’re a big loser.”
I’m not going to put up with their patronizing sympathy anymore.
So, when I spot new-guy-in-town Christopher Young, I set out to make him mine. Or you know, pretend to make him mine. I’m still in a horrible funk over Dex, and Christopher is an uptight grump. Not exactly my type.
The fact that despite appearances, he’s gorgeous and doing weird things to my blood pressure doesn’t mean a thing.
Really.
Not. A. Thing.
Christopher Young
Hunter’s Creek, population next to nothing, is the reason I work all the time. I’m solely focused on buying the town’s lumber mill so I can go back to NYC and get my big promotion. This small town is a means to an end. Nothing more.
That is until the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen superglues her lips to mine in an unexpected and very public way. She’s not the kind of woman I usually go for with her boho dress and ankle boots, but that kiss…
I’m disappointed when she comes up for air and tells me it’s all for show. But if Harper Cole wants me to be her fake boyfriend while I’m here in town, who am I to turn her down? Being attached to a local might ingratiate me to the townsfolk and make my job that much the easier.
After all, dating Harper can only be make believe. Nothing more. Not when my entire future is at stake.
Faking It With The Grump is a grumpy-sunshine, opposites attract, fake relationship romance set in the small town of Hunter’s Creek, Washington. It’s the first book in the new Second Chance Café series. Each book follows a different sister’s love story and can be read as a standalone novel or as part of a series.
EXCERPT
Kissing Christopher Young is, well,
it’s not what I expected.
Sure, he’s a good-looking guy, so
kissing him is not exactly a hardship, despite the fact he’s a million miles
from my usual type. He’s all buttoned-up and serious looking, like he would be
zero fun at a party, and only moments ago he was looking at me as though I was
a crazy person.
Which wasn’t at all fair.
All I was trying to do was explain the
very reasonable situation I find myself in, in which I’m pretending to date
him, but then I spotted my boss standing behind him and was forced to make the
snap decision to just go right ahead and kiss the guy.
Okay, now that I think about it, I may
have come across as a little less than sane. I’ll concede that much.
And yes, it’s probably a confronting
experience to have some random woman you met for three seconds not only tell
you she’s pretending to date you, but then turn around and kiss you.
I get it.
Not my most calculated move.
What I don’t get is why kissing
Christopher Young feels so unexpectedly good. His lips are soft and inviting,
and his scent is an attractive mixture of fresh, woodsy air and some kind of
musk, which takes me completely by surprise.
I’m not sure what I expected him to
smell like. Corporate offices and boring files? Freshly ironed shirts and
dry-cleaned suit jackets?
Whatever it was, it wasn’t this.
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