The Grumpy Sheriff's Pretend Bride (Small Town Grumpy Sunshine #2)

She’s the sunshine bakery owner who can’t stop humming.
He’s the grumpy widower Sheriff no one dares look in the eye.
And his dying grandmother just announced their engagement to the entire church.

Knox Bowen is six-foot-three of granite-jawed silence. He doesn’t smile. He drinks his coffee black on a porch built for two. The last man who crossed him left with a broken jaw.

Riley Hatfield is pink hair, sundresses, and the first woman who has ever stopped him mid-sentence in his kitchen. She accidentally became the favorite person of his dying Nana — who stood up at her bridal shower and announced their engagement to the whole town.

Knox didn’t deny it. His fists clenched. His voice dropped to a growl that emptied her knees.
“Get in the cruiser, sunshine. Don’t run.”
This terrifying widower makes her coffee at five in the morning, walks her down a country aisle in a borrowed dress, and kisses her at his kitchen table like a man who has just remembered what hunger is for.
“Three weeks of pretend.” He steps closer. “It was real on day two. I couldn’t say it.”

Then her runaway fiancé figures out where she’s hiding.
And he’s driving south.
He has no idea what a grumpy widower with a reason to live again is capable of.
Welcome to Cedar Hollow. Where the grumpy ones fall the hardest — and the widowers love loudest.

READER'S NOTE:
A grumpy widower Sheriff and the sunshine event planner who tricked him into a fake marriage. Grumpy/sunshine, fake dating, fake marriage, widower, forced proximity, small-town Tennessee, scorching heat, guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers. Each book features a new Cedar Hollow couple. Start reading now.