

They plan out their relationship, their marriage and their divorce which will take place over the next three years, all the while plotting to convince their friends and family that it’s the real deal. Neither of them want an actual relationship, but they both see the benefits of what a marriage between them will bring, so the situation is perfect. Max has been burned by love before, Nina has lost everybody she has ever cared for. Desperate to hold on to her recently deceased grandmother’s house, she’s willing to do anything to pay the bills. Desperate enough that he is planning a marriage of convenience just so that he can get his green card. Max Sturm is a German businessman who is desperate to stay in the United States. After too many near-kisses, Nina convinces herself that hating Max is better than loving him, and the more she gets to know this soon-to-be-husband of hers, the more she discovers just how very much she truly, madly, and deeply. Nothing could go wrong.īut what they didn’t consider was chemistry, and Nina and Max have no shortage of it. They planned it all, from the story of their first meeting to the date of their divorce. Both of them have experienced the sting and sham of love and have no intentions of falling victim to it twice. It's herself.*Recommended for mature readers due to moderate language and sexuality.Nina can’t let herself fall in love with the man she’s going to marry. The more she convinces herself she doesn't care, the harder she falls.When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she's kept up for years, Rowen realizes it's not just everyone else she needs to be honest with.


But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. He's the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded.Rowen knows there's no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl-happily-right-now is a stretch-so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she's not sure she's ready to feel. Jesse's like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing.Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she'd thought was frozen go boom-boom.

Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen's dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. And there's Rowen Sterling.After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. ***NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***From New York Times & USATODAY Bestselling Author Nicole Williams, a story about a troubled girl, a good guy, and one summer that will forever change them both.There's complicated.
