❝ Just because someone’s thoughtful doesn’t mean they love you.❞

❝ You know it’s ok to say what you want, doesn’t make you a bad person.❞

❝ Stewart: That was a terrible idea Me: Which part? Stewart: Saying goodbye. Are you busy? I’m in your driveway I turn into my pillow to hide my smile from myself. It doesn’t work; I am in a full-body smile. Me: Come around back He doesn’t reply but I hear him, feet on dry grass making their way to me.❞

From The New York Times bestselling author of Nora Goes Off Script , a romance about a single mother who’s offered a Pretty Woman -type deal that’s too good to refuse.

If they begin by pretending, can they end with something real?

Dolly Brick has never met a problem she couldn’t solve. Not when her mom left when she was twelve, and not at thirty-nine when she moves with her son back to Whitfield, Rhode Island for the summer to keep her dad and brother from losing the family home.

So when she comes across Stewart Whitfield—annoyingly handsome scion of the Whitfield family—with a flat tire and at the wrong end of a very public, very humiliating breakup, it’s in her nature to help. But Stewart’s proposed arrangement ends up being more than either of them bargained for, because as public dinners and high society benefits turn into sunset boat rides and swinging on the porch, Dolly starts to feel something more than helpful. She’s never relied on anyone besides herself, can she really start now?

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