Small Towns & Big Hearts
(2026)(A book in the Front Lines to Home Fronts series)
A novel by Aliyah Burke
He claims her as his fiancée to protect her… but he intends to keep her.
Hero Benton has spent her life trying to escape Honeyville. Hero is saving every penny she earns to leave town—permanently. Between working grueling shifts at the local grocery store, diner and a caregiver while enduring the taunts of the mean girls she grew up with, she’s banking every penny she earns.
Former soldier. Reluctant billionaire. Theodore Kidd returns to his small hometown to visit his grandfather, when he discovers two things:
His grumpy grandfather has a caregiver and it's none other than someone he knew growing up. Granted, he assumed the worst of her the first time he found her in the kitchen.
She’s grumpy. She’s exhausted. She’s dead set on leaving.
Too bad Theo decides the second he sees her that she’s the reason he came home.
But when a situation spirals and Theo steps in, he blurts out the words he can’t take back. He announces she is his fiancée.
Harper is horrified.
The town…amused.
Theo? He’s never been more sure of anything.
He fell first.
He fell fast.
And he’s not about to let the woman who finally feels like home walk away.
This short read is MF with a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes for Small Towns & Big Hearts include - Small Town, Ex-military, Billionaire, Return to Hometown, Unrequited Love, Fake Relationship, He Falls First, Curvy
Hero Benton has spent her life trying to escape Honeyville. Hero is saving every penny she earns to leave town—permanently. Between working grueling shifts at the local grocery store, diner and a caregiver while enduring the taunts of the mean girls she grew up with, she’s banking every penny she earns.
Former soldier. Reluctant billionaire. Theodore Kidd returns to his small hometown to visit his grandfather, when he discovers two things:
His grumpy grandfather has a caregiver and it's none other than someone he knew growing up. Granted, he assumed the worst of her the first time he found her in the kitchen.
She’s grumpy. She’s exhausted. She’s dead set on leaving.
Too bad Theo decides the second he sees her that she’s the reason he came home.
But when a situation spirals and Theo steps in, he blurts out the words he can’t take back. He announces she is his fiancée.
Harper is horrified.
The town…amused.
Theo? He’s never been more sure of anything.
He fell first.
He fell fast.
And he’s not about to let the woman who finally feels like home walk away.
This short read is MF with a guaranteed HEA.
Tropes for Small Towns & Big Hearts include - Small Town, Ex-military, Billionaire, Return to Hometown, Unrequited Love, Fake Relationship, He Falls First, Curvy
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