Little Favors: A Fake-Dating Romance

Claire Spencer has finally freed herself from her family's harsh control, but her new job is not the fresh start she imagined. Instead of folding sheets at this small-town inn, she's spending her days in their barn, sorting through architectural salvage with the inn's enigmatic owner.

Huge and surly, Travis Saint James barely says a word to anyone, even when he's doing unexpected favors for his skittish new assistant. But when his caring gestures go a little too far, Claire finds herself fending off rumors that she's dating her boss, and it's exactly the type of gossip she'd been hoping to avoid in her new life.

Her instinct is to run in the other direction-until Travis proposes they lean into the lie for a little while. Whatever his reasons are for wanting a fake girlfriend, Claire decides it might not be such a bad idea, especially with her family finding new ways to remind her that she'll never truly escape them.

This is a slow-burn, standalone romance with no cheating and a happily ever after.