Hopeless - Elsie Silver

Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.I'm the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.He's thirty-five and all man, I'm twenty-two and all .. . virgin.He's also my fiance. Correction: my fake fiance.We start out as a bet. He doesn't believe that anyone holds my last name against me.So he offers me his to prove a point.It's a win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family's prying, and I get a chance to shed my family's reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can't keep my hands off of him in public.But it's what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines . ..It's what transpires behind closed doors that doesn't feel like pretending at all . . .This engagement was supposed to be for show.This agreement? It has an end date.He once told me he'd never fall in love.And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiance.