A Fighting Chance (Knockout Series)
A.J Nighthawke
by Brighton Walsh
Some mistakes wear a wedding ring.
When Willa Jameson stumbles into her lifelong nemesis's bar—heartbroken, desperate, and dangerously close to losing her family farm—the last thing she expects is for him to propose a solution. A fake one. A temporary marriage of pure convenience that will solve both their problems and absolutely nothing else. Simple. Clean. No feelings involved.
Except nothing between Willa and the infuriatingly handsome Steele brother has ever been simple.
Set against the charming backdrop of Starlight Cove, this small-town romance takes the fake-dating trope and cranks up the heat to scorching. Sharing a roof with a man you've spent decades despising turns out to be remarkably complicated when those arguments keep dissolving into stolen glances and electricity that has no business existing between two people who can't stand each other. Or at least, that's what they keep telling themselves.
The bickering still flows freely—but so does something far more dangerous. Late nights on the porch. Accidental touches in the kitchen. The slow, maddening realization that maybe the person who drives you absolutely crazy is the same one who knows you better than anyone else ever has.
Walsh delivers slow-burn tension with sharp wit and genuine emotional depth, crafting characters whose chemistry feels as inevitable as it is inconvenient. Because the real mistake might not be the marriage—it might be falling for someone you were never supposed to want.
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