Connie Evans has always distrusted nice guys. In her experience, they?re just waiting to reveal some horrible secret. And then she meets big, adorable, Henry Samuel Beckett ? sweet, lover of bow ties, and so cheery she struggles to believe he?s real. Until Beck ? as he?s known to most ? tells her what truly lurks underneath his sunny surface. He?s been single all his life. But somehow seems to have told everyone he works with that he?s married. And when Connie can?t help defending him, she ends up being the wife he doesn?t have. And now they?re on a writing retreat together, surrounded by people convinced this can?t be real, both of them sure that those people are right. Until they have to share their first kiss, their first touch, their first time in only one bed. Side by side, every night, as the simmering tension builds . . . something has to give. The only question for Connie is ? will it be the fake marriage, or her heart?