I didn't sign up for forever. Just one perfect autumn of pretending. Stella Moreau has a plan: survive her ex-boyfriend's wedding without dying of humiliation. Step one? Find a plus-one who makes her look like she's thriving. Step two? Lie through her teeth. Step three? Walk away with the dignity she came with. Enter Lucas Blackwood-the brooding, filthy-rich recluse who just inherited the entire cursed town of Maple Hollow and wants nothing to do with its nosy residents. He needs a fake girlfriend to fend off a gold-digging family scandal. She needs a tall, dark, and wallet-sized distraction to get through wedding season. The deal is simple: one month of hand-holding, holiday hayrides, and carefully staged PDAs. No real feelings. No messy entanglements. Just autumn leaves and a clean break when the first snow falls. Except Lucas's guarded ferocity hides a tenderness that keeps catching her off guard. And Stella's stubborn sunshine has started seeping through every crack in his armor. Their steamy small town charade is supposed to end with the season, but the chemistry is too real, the nights too long, and the stakes too high. Because the grumpy billionaire hermit isn't acting, and the free-spirited baker who makes his heart race has no plan for when the fake fling becomes the only thing that matters. Will they risk it all for a real love story, or let autumn end the way it started-with a goodbye? Perfect for readers who love enemies to lovers love stories packed with sizzling tension, alpha heroes who fall hard, and small town charm you can feel in your bones.
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