Luke Garrison is a hometown hero, a member of the National Guard ready to deploy again. The last thing he´s looking for is a woman to ruin his solitude. When the wildly beautiful Harper stumbles into his life, though, he realises she´s the perfect decoy: a fake girlfriend to keep his family off his back until he´s deployed. Harper was on her way to starting a new life . . . again. But something about Luke makes her want to settle down in this small town and make his house a home. Luke never thought he´d feel this way about a woman again. But he knows that he can´t tell her the truth about his dark past. And she can´t reveal what she´s running from. At least this isn´t a real relationship. It´s only for a month. It´s only pretend. Until it isn´t . . .