Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.<\/p>\n
I’m the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.<\/p>\n
He’s thirty-five and all man, and I’m twenty-two and all? virgin.<\/p>\n
He’s also my fianc\u00e9e. Correction: my fake fianc\u00e9.<\/p>\n
We start out as a bet. He doesn’t believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.<\/p>\n
It’s win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family’s prying, and I get a chance to shed my family’s reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.<\/p>\n
He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can’t keep my hands off of him in public.<\/p>\n
But it’s what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.<\/p>\n
It’s what transpires behind closed doors that doesn’t feel like pretending at all.<\/p>\n
This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.<\/p>\n
He once told me he’d never fall in love.<\/p>\n
And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fianc\u00e9.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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