Speed Dating

Kendall Clarke is an actuary who calculates risk for a living, and she has just learned that her fiance is calling off their wedding. He has gotten one of her colleagues pregnant. Hours later she is locked out of her hotel room in North Carolina.

Then Dylan Hargreave walks up and takes her for an actress hired to play his girlfriend at a society wedding. Dylan is a celebrity NASCAR driver and People magazine's Sexiest Man of the Year. Kendall does not correct him.

She has always been the sensible one, the person who keeps the brakes on. After the broken engagement she decides to set caution aside for a while and play the part she has been handed. Her own judgement has told her the odds of this working out are poor, and she goes ahead anyway.

Kendall narrates in the first person, in a light, comic voice, and the mistaken identity drives the romance. The question is how long a pretend girlfriend can keep up the act at a wedding full of strangers.