Faking It This Fall

After a breakup and a drained bank account forced Ari Langford back under her parents' roof in Vermont, her younger sister's engagement turned the homecoming into a public ordeal.

The whole town is obsessed with the wedding of the century, and her mother keeps pairing her with every single man within fifty miles.

Wade Stevenson, the charming high school principal known for flirting first and thinking later, makes the return almost bearable, even though half the community is waiting for a slip that could cost him his job.

When a student's inappropriate crush threatens to become dangerous rumors, Wade needs a respectable girlfriend immediately, and Ari needs cover from her mother's matchmaking.

Fake dating looks like the perfect solution until cider donuts at the fall festival, shared seats at the football games, and far more time together than either planned start to feel dangerously real.

The more they lean on the arrangement, the less it feels like a performance, and Ari is terrified of how easily Wade could break her heart if any of it turns out to be true.