From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Spanish Love Deception comes something new to
fall in love with... Josie Moore has given the opposite sex––and love––plenty of chances.
Four exactly if you count all her failed engagements and five if you include the absentee
father who kept her existence a secret until very recently. So when her father decides to
announce his retirement with a splashy magazine piece about the family Josie realizes her
romantic history is a complicated PR issue. Matthew Flanagan is the mud literally. Not
only has he been fired from his job but also the tires of his car are stuck in the muck after
taking a wrong turn as he enters Green Oak North Carolina. So he grabs a duffel with his
essentials and goes in search of a place to crash until he gets his life back on track. But
instead he finds his best friend’s sister Josie greeting him as her fiancé. What starts
as a big messy misunderstanding quickly turns into an arrangement with Matthew playing a new
role as doting fiancé. A fifth engagement––and a stunt at that––makes Josie’s stomach turn
but every dilemma requires a choice between equally undesirable alternatives and Matthew
doesn’t seem to mind becoming one more number in a colourful list of grooms-that-never-were.
Despite the ring on her finger Josie knows this is only temporary even if the rest of the
small town believes that the fifth time’s the charm.
