Love Arranged

Lorenzo Vittori is running for mayor of Lake Wisteria and has a reputation problem. He was the antagonist of the earlier book Love Redesigned, and voters have not forgotten it. He needs someone beside him who can make him look likable.

Lily Muñoz owns and runs her family's flower shop. For a year she has kept away from Lorenzo, but now a powerful local family is squeezing her business, and she has no one else to turn to. Lorenzo has the influence she lacks.

They agree to a trade. For five months Lily plays his partner in public and helps him win the election. In return he protects the shop. Because the two share a past, the arrangement is harder to keep strictly for show than either predicted, and the act in front of the town begins to spill into private moments.

This is a contemporary fake-dating romance and the third and final book in the Lakefront Billionaires series. It follows the campaign, the trouble at the shop and the slow turn from pretending to meaning it. It reads as a standalone, though series readers will recognise Dahlia and Julian from the first book.