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The Heartbreaker for Hire
(2026)(The third book in the Valentine Bay: Lockhart Ranch series)
A novel by Melanie Shawn
Mikayla Parsons needs a boyfriend for four days. Unfortunately, the only man available is the one she absolutely cannot fall for.
Mikayla came to Lockhart Ranch for her cousin’s wedding.
She did not come to discover her cheating ex is in the wedding party.
With her former best friend.
Apparently, they'''re a couple now.
Fantastic.
And because Mikayla would rather choke on a bridesmaid bouquet than let either of them know she hasn’t dated once
since their breakup, the normally rational, extremely Type-A CEO does what any woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown would do.
She hires herself a boyfriend.
Enter Damon Lockhart.
Charming. Shameless. Ridiculously attractive.
Damon has spent the last two years flirting with Mikayla every chance he gets, while she’s spent them pretending his
devastating smile doesn’t make her want to do very un-Type-A things to him.
Because Damon is the life of every party, the king of bad ideas, and a notorious heartbreaker who’s never taken a relationship seriously.
In other words?
Perfect fake-boyfriend material. Terrible real-boyfriend material.
So Mikayla lays down the rules.
Four days.
Fake relationship.
No blurred lines.
No catching feelings.
Damon agrees.
Possibly a little too enthusiastically.
Because what Mikayla doesn’t know is that Damon has been crazy about her since the first time she walked onto his family’s ranch.
She thinks she just hired the town heartbreaker.
Damon thinks the woman he’s wanted for two years finally handed him four uninterrupted days to make her want him back.
Fake kisses?
He’s willing to suffer through them.
Hands on her whenever the ex is watching?
Damon takes his responsibilities very seriously.
And if convincing everyone they’re madly in love requires sharing a bed?
Best. Fake. Job. Ever.
Mikayla is determined to walk away when the wedding ends.
Damon is determined to make sure she doesn’t.
Because beneath the flirting, wicked grin, and heartbreaker reputation is one inconvenient truth Mikayla never saw coming.
Damon Lockhart isn’t pretending.
And if he gets his way, the only thing fake about their relationship will be how it started.
The Heartbreaker for Hire is a steamy small-town romantic comedy packed with fake dating, forced proximity, wedding chaos, a Type-A CEO, a shamelessly flirty cowboy, he falls first, opposites attract, sizzling fake kisses, family shenanigans, and a notorious heartbreaker who’s been gone for one woman all along.
Genre: Romance
Mikayla came to Lockhart Ranch for her cousin’s wedding.
She did not come to discover her cheating ex is in the wedding party.
With her former best friend.
Apparently, they'''re a couple now.
Fantastic.
And because Mikayla would rather choke on a bridesmaid bouquet than let either of them know she hasn’t dated once
since their breakup, the normally rational, extremely Type-A CEO does what any woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown would do.
She hires herself a boyfriend.
Enter Damon Lockhart.
Charming. Shameless. Ridiculously attractive.
Damon has spent the last two years flirting with Mikayla every chance he gets, while she’s spent them pretending his
devastating smile doesn’t make her want to do very un-Type-A things to him.
Because Damon is the life of every party, the king of bad ideas, and a notorious heartbreaker who’s never taken a relationship seriously.
In other words?
Perfect fake-boyfriend material. Terrible real-boyfriend material.
So Mikayla lays down the rules.
Four days.
Fake relationship.
No blurred lines.
No catching feelings.
Damon agrees.
Possibly a little too enthusiastically.
Because what Mikayla doesn’t know is that Damon has been crazy about her since the first time she walked onto his family’s ranch.
She thinks she just hired the town heartbreaker.
Damon thinks the woman he’s wanted for two years finally handed him four uninterrupted days to make her want him back.
Fake kisses?
He’s willing to suffer through them.
Hands on her whenever the ex is watching?
Damon takes his responsibilities very seriously.
And if convincing everyone they’re madly in love requires sharing a bed?
Best. Fake. Job. Ever.
Mikayla is determined to walk away when the wedding ends.
Damon is determined to make sure she doesn’t.
Because beneath the flirting, wicked grin, and heartbreaker reputation is one inconvenient truth Mikayla never saw coming.
Damon Lockhart isn’t pretending.
And if he gets his way, the only thing fake about their relationship will be how it started.
The Heartbreaker for Hire is a steamy small-town romantic comedy packed with fake dating, forced proximity, wedding chaos, a Type-A CEO, a shamelessly flirty cowboy, he falls first, opposites attract, sizzling fake kisses, family shenanigans, and a notorious heartbreaker who’s been gone for one woman all along.
Genre: Romance
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