Came the Closest

Name: Came the Closest
Author: Cleopatra Margot

117 pages

As a child, Cheyenne Kolter expected her life to look drastically different when approaching 30—a fairytale marriage like her parents, children to raise, and a successful career in the art world. Reality is being freshly divorced from a toxic man, moving to her lakeside hometown after a catastrophic end to her career in Chicago, and navigating life while her father is comatose after a near-fatal accident.
She just didn’t think she’d be redefining herself by becoming a nanny for the summer, let alone for a man she’s determined to forget.

Two-time world champion bull rider Colton Del Ray is a loner by nature, making his home on the road and keeping relationships surface level. But after he loses his temper during a live online podcast, he’s forced to lay low in Balsam Falls, only be thrown a curveball when he learns his absent mother named him guardian of his four-year-old half-brother, Milo.
The catch? He must be in a stable relationship, and when Cheyenne proposes a fake engagement, an arrangement is made.

They will live in her family’s vacant lake house, she’ll agree to be Colton’s fake fiancée for the duration of the three-month guardianship if he allows her to nanny Milo. After the court hearing, things will go back to normal. It’s not personal, the past is in the past, and new feelings are as fleeting as a summer sunrise. But what happens when they realize they’ve come the closest they’ve ever been to being truly happy?

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