THE BILLIONAIRE’S HOMETOWN DEAL

When a pink-haired coffee shop owner becomes the fake fiancée of the billionaire she publicly humiliated, their ten-day deal during a small-town summer festival becomes dangerously real.

Mara Quinn called tech billionaire Noah Sterling “Scrooge in a suit” in a viral video three months ago. Now his company is buying her building, and she’s about to lose Grounded Coffee—the heart of Pine Ridge and the only home she’s ever had. His solution? A fake engagement for ten days during the Summer Festival. He gets to prove he’s “settled down” to inherit his grandfather’s business. She gets to keep her coffee shop. Perfect deal. Pure business.

Except nothing about falling for Mara Quinn is business. Between couples’ cooking contests and romantic boat parades, family dinners where his grandfather treats her like the granddaughter he never had, and late-night conversations where they share the scars of abandonment, the line between fake and real disappears. When the truth comes out at his grandfather’s birthday party, destroying everything they’ve built, the billionaire who ran from his hometown twelve years ago has to choose between Silicon Valley success and small-town love, while the woman who’s been left behind by everyone has to risk her heart on the one man who promises to stay.

TROPES:
• Fake Engagement
• Enemies to Lovers
• Billionaire Romance
• Small Town Romance
• Return to Hometown
• Grumpy/Sunshine
• Contract Romance
• He Falls First
• Found Family

HEAT LEVEL: Sweet / Closed Door