Fake It Till Summer Ends (ELM HOLLOW HOLIDAYS SERIES - From Sunrise Ranch Series Book 5)

Running from your past is a perfectly reasonable life strategy—until your past shows up in the same charming small town with a devastatingly attractive smile and absolutely zero regrets.

Lina trades her complicated history for Elm Hollow's sunlit streets and slow-paced summer, convinced a fresh start is exactly what she needs. What she doesn't need is Sebastian—her infuriating, heartbreakingly handsome ex—materializing on her doorstep with the audacity to suggest they still have unfinished business. She disagrees. Loudly.

But Elm Hollow has other plans. When the sleepy little town is suddenly transformed into the battleground for a high-stakes, town-wide reality competition pitting rival cities against each other, Lina and Sebastian find themselves thrown together under blazing summer skies and the unblinking eye of the cameras. Forced proximity has never felt so dangerously inconvenient.

Every challenge they navigate together chips away at the carefully constructed walls between them. Every stolen glance, every argument that lingers a breath too long, every moment the summer heat makes it impossible to think straight—it all adds up to something Lina is desperately trying not to name.

Second-chance romance has never burned quite this bright. Set against the backdrop of Elm Hollow's irresistible small-town chaos, this steamy romantic comedy asks one impossible question: can two people who broke each other's hearts actually rewrite their story—or will history simply repeat itself in the most spectacular way possible?