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At her high school reunion, the heroine impulsively tells everyone she's engaged — to Hutton French, her lifelong best friend, who happens to be standing right there. Rather than correct the record, Hutton plays along, and the two find themselves committed to a fake engagement that quickly becomes very public.

To keep the story believable, they move in together, which forces two people who have spent years carefully not acknowledging their feelings into close, constant proximity. Harlow builds the romance through banter and the slow erosion of the boundaries the pair had used to keep their friendship safe.

Set among the Cloverleigh Farms family and orchard backdrop that recurs across Harlow's connected series, this is a breezy, small-town contemporary romance driven by a classic fake-relationship premise rather than external conflict.