In This Moment Paperback

I've raised my son on my own for years. We don't need anyone else.

Then his father walked back into our lives. With a lawyer.

If I can't prove I have a stable, two-parent home, fast, I could lose my boy. So I did the only thing I could think of.

I asked Declan McCormick to be my fake fiancé.

Everyone in town knows and loves him. He's the kind of man who's spent his whole life saying yes when someone needs help. He also has dimples that should be illegal and a way of looking at me like I don't have to do this alone.

Of course he said yes.

Now we're holding hands at the grocery store. Sharing a bed when his family comes to visit. Stealing kisses that stopped feeling fake somewhere along the way.

It was supposed to be a favor. A short-term arrangement. A means to an end.

It was never supposed to feel like the family I've been afraid to want.

But when the truth threatens to take everything I've built, there's no version of this where I walk away whole.