FAKE IT TRUE by J.H Croix is NOW LIVE
A swoony, small town firefighter romance from USA Today Bestselling Author J.H. Croix!
How we met: He spilled coffee on me.
First date: I dragged him into my therapy session. Does that even count?
Spoiler alert: We’re definitely not a couple.
Leo Massie is a smoking-hot firefighter. Literally. He also owes me after dousing me in coffee. But instead of a simple favor, I might have accidentally told my therapist he’s my fiancé. Oops.
Now, Leo—single dad, small-town hero, and the most maddeningly good man I’ve ever met—is playing along. What started as a tiny white lie is spiraling into something I wish were real. The way he looks at me? The way he takes care of everyone around him? The way he makes me feel? None of that feels fake.
I came to Alaska to escape my past. I never expected to find a man willing to stand beside me through it. Maybe we’re just pretending. Or maybe… we can fake it true.
Perfect for readers who love: hotshot firefighters, single dads, slow-burn tension, fake dating with real feelings, small-town charm, emotional romance with a touch of angst, plenty of steam and swoon, and a cinnamon roll hero with a fierce protective streak.
*A full-length, standalone romance.
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Sunny Shelly’s Review: 4 Stars
Fake It True is a really cute fake engagement story about firefighter Leo, a single dad, and Casey, who moved to Alaska after her sister died.
Casey’s mom has been pushing her to date a family friend, but she suspects Nathaniel is dangerous. So to get her mom off of her back, Casey claims she has a fiancé. Leo just happens to be in the right place at the right time for Casey to get him to play along with her, and he agrees. I loved that they were both mutually crushing on one another, so they decide to date for real.
I liked the story’s development and how slowly Leo introduced little Dora to Casey. Casey and Leo had great chemistry, and they balanced each other nicely. I loved how Leo stepped up for Casey during the visit with her parents.
This book is part of a series, and for the most part, it is a contained standalone. But the whole coffee-spilling incident clearly happened off-page before the book began (I’m assuming in a previous book in the series), so I felt as if I was missing out on their history right out of the gate. Having not read any other books first, I would have loved to have seen that relationship established.
I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.
Meet J.H. Croix:
USA Today Bestselling Author J. H. Croix lives in a small town in Maine with her husband and two spoiled dogs. She writes swoony contemporary romance with sassy women and alpha men who aren’t afraid to show some emotion. Her love for quirky small-towns and the characters that inhabit them shines through in her writing. When she’s not writing, you can find her cooking, counting the turtles in her backyard pond, and running with her dogs, which is when her best plotting happens.
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