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Lake Lies and Love Ties: A Fake Fiancé, Family Reunion Romance
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ISBN13: 9798184358598
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 23 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Bresha Redding has survived boardrooms, deadlines, and family group chats. What she refuses to survive is another reunion where every auntie wants to know why a woman with her life this together is still single.
So for one weekend at the family's lake house, Bresha decides to control the narrative: bring a boyfriend, answer no questions, and leave with her dignity intact.
Her mistake is choosing Devon Hardy.
Devon is a comedian who can turn an awkward silence into a punch line-and who considers Bresha's carefully rehearsed backstory more of a suggestion than a script. Before she can stop him, her fake boyfriend has somehow become her fake fiancé.
Now Aunties Gwen, Pam, and Trina want details. Where did he propose? When is the wedding? Why can't Bresha remember the story the same way Devon tells it?
And at a family reunion packed with cookouts, competitive spades, a talent show, and relatives who have known Bresha long enough to spot every nervous glance, keeping the lie straight becomes a full-time job.
Devon should be enjoying the joke. Instead, the more time he spends inside Bresha's loud, loving, relentlessly nosy family, the more he starts wanting something he never agreed to fake.
Bresha has the opposite problem.
Devon makes her laugh when she's trying to stay irritated. He notices when she slips away from the crowd. And during a quiet moment on the dock, one kiss leaves them both wondering whether they crossed a line-or finally stopped pretending.
But the reunion isn't over, the aunties aren't convinced, and every new lie makes the truth harder to admit.
Because Bresha brought Devon home to prove she didn't need anyone.
She never expected him to become the one person she might not want to leave without.
Devon is a comedian who can turn an awkward silence into a punch line-and who considers Bresha's carefully rehearsed backstory more of a suggestion than a script. Before she can stop him, her fake boyfriend has somehow become her fake fiancé.
Now Aunties Gwen, Pam, and Trina want details. Where did he propose? When is the wedding? Why can't Bresha remember the story the same way Devon tells it?
And at a family reunion packed with cookouts, competitive spades, a talent show, and relatives who have known Bresha long enough to spot every nervous glance, keeping the lie straight becomes a full-time job.
Devon should be enjoying the joke. Instead, the more time he spends inside Bresha's loud, loving, relentlessly nosy family, the more he starts wanting something he never agreed to fake.
Bresha has the opposite problem.
Devon makes her laugh when she's trying to stay irritated. He notices when she slips away from the crowd. And during a quiet moment on the dock, one kiss leaves them both wondering whether they crossed a line-or finally stopped pretending.
But the reunion isn't over, the aunties aren't convinced, and every new lie makes the truth harder to admit.
Because Bresha brought Devon home to prove she didn't need anyone.
She never expected him to become the one person she might not want to leave without.
The boyfriend was fake. The engagement was ridiculous. Unfortunately, the feelings didn't get the memo.
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