Pop star Delaney James is gorgeous, talented, and so totally screwed.
With her career in jeopardy, she is sent to her small Tennessee hometown to clean up her image by volunteering with the high school choir. When she is photographed with her childhood best friend, and current Ridgecrest High English teacher, her fans go wild.
A plan is hatched: he will play the part of her boyfriend, the media will eat it up, and Delaney’s career will be back on track in no time. Fake dating her best friend is no problem for Delaney; she’s spent the past decade playing whatever role necessary to rise to the top of the pop music charts.
Connor Majors, on the other hand, isn’t as good at pretending.
Dedicated to his job at the high school, and to his family’s failing apple orchard business, he wears his heart on his sleeve.
Delaney is only staying in Ridgecrest long enough to do damage control, and Connor knows he can’t leave. But the spark between them is undeniable. So even when the lines between fake and real start to blur, Connor doesn’t pull away.
After all this time, he can’t say no.