Bayou Beauty

Sylvie meant to take Washington by storm. Instead she came home, because Papillon needed her, and became the mayor of a tiny town on the bayou. She tells herself it is a pit stop on the way to bigger things — and the one thing that could derail it is the man she loved in high school walking back into her life.

Rene Darois has spent his life serving his family, and now the family has one more demand: marry, quickly, or lose control of the company his grandfather built. Rene has a solution ready. He was going to court Sylvie anyway.

Sylvie agrees to the marriage, but a proposal with a balance sheet behind it is a hard thing to trust, and Rene's grasping relatives make it no easier. Lexi Blake's fourth Butterfly Bayou novel is a marriage-of-convenience romance with a small town watching every move.