Faking It in Juniper Bay

She invented a boyfriend. Then she had to produce one.

Hazel Byrne came to Juniper Bay to sell her grandmother's bookshop and go back to her real life. She did not come to fall in love with the shop, panic at a family phone call, invent a fictional boyfriend, and then have to immediately produce one at a family reunion. That part was an accident.

Jack Bennett is the golden Bennett — charming, funny, beloved by absolutely everyone in Juniper Bay, and secretly the loneliest person in it. He's watched all five of his siblings find love and build real lives while he stays the perpetual bachelor, the fun one, the last holdout. When the bookish woman from Chapter & Tide shows up needing a fake boyfriend for one weekend, Jack says yes — partly to help, and partly because Hazel Byrne is the first person he's met in years who seems to see past the charm to whatever's underneath it, and he isn't quite ready for that to stop.

The trouble with fake dating someone who sees you clearly is that it's very hard to keep pretending.

A warm, funny, swoony fake-dating romance about the town's most charming man learning to be known, and the bookshop girl who was never a disappointment — just the only one brave enough to want the beautiful impractical thing. Faking It in Juniper Bay is the sixth and final book in the Juniper Bay series, but can be read on its own.

Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Helen Hoang, and anyone who loves a fake-dating romance with genuine heart, real stakes, and a bookshop by the sea.

She made him up. He turned out to be exactly real.