Close Enough to Fall

After my divorce, I moved home to live with my parents in our small, autumn-obsessed town. Unfortunately, my hot neighbor is back for the season...and he's staying right next door.

Levi Hayes and I have hated each other since we were teenagers. Now he's a famous country singer, and his close bond with my family means I can't get rid of him. After a plumbing issue in his childhood bedroom leads my parents to offer up my brother's old room to him, he's much too close for comfort. We argue over every little thing. Compete to carve the best pumpkin. Bicker through every small-town festivity. Then he presses me against my bedroom door and kisses me. That's when everything goes to hell.

Now we're sneaking around after our parents go to sleep and pretending we still despise each other in public. We can't tell anyone. A scandal like this could set the whole town on fire and ruin his curated reputation. It's an arrangement we'll keep until Halloween, and then he'll return to Nashville.

And then his gorgeous, famous, PR girlfriend shows up, forcing him to keep up the image of their relationship, and I realize this isn't just a secret fling. I'm falling for the one man I can never have.