Hopeless

<p>Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks.</p><p><br></p><p>He's thirty-five and all man, and I'm twenty-two and all . . . virgin.</p><p><br></p><p>He's also my fiancé. Correction: my fake fiancé.</p><p><br></p><p>We start out as a bet. He doesn't believe that anyone holds my last name against me. So he offers me his to prove a point.</p><p><br></p><p>It's win-win. He gets a break from his concerned family's prying, and I get a chance to shed my family's reputation while I save up to ditch this small town.</p><p><br></p><p>He says all I have to do is wear his ring, follow his lead, and pretend I can't keep my hands off of him in public.</p><p><br></p><p>But it's what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines.</p><p><br></p><p>It's what transpires behind closed doors that doesn't feel like pretending at all.</p><p><br></p><p>This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date.</p><p><br></p><p>He once told me he'd never fall in love.</p><p><br></p><p>And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fiancé.</p>