02208cam a2200373 i 4500 1405922098 OCoLC 20241114130644.0 231107t20232023xxc e 000 f eng d 9781738844777 9780349437743 BRL eng rda AJM OCLCO SKYRV PR9199.4.S5436 H67 2023 Silver, Elsie, author. 18643 Hopeless : a small town fake dating romance / Elsie Silver. [Canada] : Elsie Silver, [2023] ©2023. 473 pages ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. A Chestnut Springs novel "Beau Eaton is the town prince, a handsome military hero with a tortured past. I'm the outcast bartender, a shy girl from the wrong side of the tracks. He's thirty-five and all man, and I'm twenty-two and all . . . virgin. He's also my fianč. Correction: my fake fianč. 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. 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. 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. But it's what happens between us in private that blurs all those carefully drawn lines. It's what transpires behind closed doors that doesn't feel like pretending at all. This engagement was supposed to be for show. This agreement? It has an end date. He once told me he'd never fall in love. And yet here I am, head over heels for my fake fianč." Man-woman relationships Fiction. 5884 Fiancées Fiction. 18847 Bartenders Fiction. 12580 Veterans Fiction. 5978 Families Fiction. 5980 Small cities Fiction. 5977 Romance fiction. 4389 Romance fiction. lcgft. 51 Silver, Elsie. Chestnut Springs series ; 5. 18648 ddc BOOK 30246 30246 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ ROM 2024-11-14 7.99 2 1 SILV 40017 2025-05-14 2025-04-09 2024-11-14 BOOK 1