Nothing Past Labor Day

Rule one: nothing past Labor Day. Rule five: nobody falls in love.

Florist June Castellano has made the flowers for half the weddings in Port Avery, Michigan, including the one she never got to have. Two years after her fiancé walked out six weeks before the big day, the whole lakeside town still treats her like a wounded bird. The casseroles keep coming. Her mother has a dentist lined up. And this summer June is doing the flowers for her ex's wedding.

Callum Reade is the last man she would ever pick. The groom's brooding older brother came home from Seattle to run his late father's boatyard, and he has spent fourteen years acting like Port Avery is beneath him. But when June catches him lying to his mother about having a girlfriend, and his mother decides the girlfriend is June, a deal gets written on a coffee-shop napkin. Fake it through the summer. Survive two weddings. Break up quietly the day after Labor Day.

The rules are simple. Keeping them is not. There is a fish fry kiss that was only for show, a Fourth of July kiss that very much was not, a half-restored sailboat in the back shed, and a secret Callum is keeping that could cost his family everything. As the wedding date closes in, June has to decide whether the man who left once without a word is about to do it again, or whether some promises are made to be broken.

Nothing Past Labor Day is a warm, funny, closed-door small-town romance with fake dating, grumpy meets sunshine, meddling mothers, a whole town watching, and a guaranteed happily ever after.