Lights, Camera, Love — Stephanie Taylor

Is anybody truly too busy for love? Television producer Carrie Devereaux thinks she is. She works on the hugely successful dating show, Trial By Fire, and considers herself a fast-paced, gritty New Yorker at heart. But when the female half of her most recent episode backs out, she's unwittingly forced to fill the spot herself. At her boss's insistence, she becomes mild-mannered Carrie from Idaho, a nanny who likes to volunteer and spend quiet nights working on knitting projects. She flies to California to meet her television suitor and suddenly finds herself caring for two young, motherless children despite the fact that the real Carrie has zero experience with kids.Jack Brewster has agreed to participate in Trial By Fire and to let Carrie come stay at his house in Santa Barbara and care for his two children because his board of directors feels that Brewster Inc.'s hotel chain is in desperate need of an image overhaul. But starring on a reality show about finding love and exposing his kids to a total stranger goes against Jack's nature--not to mention the way it goes against his heart, which still belongs to his late wife, Andrea.Neither Jack nor Carrie knows the real reasons for the other's participation in the show, but as they get to know one another, there is clear chemistry between them. Jack's adorable kids, Logan and Abby, win Carrie over almost instantly, but there's no avoiding the fact—for either of them—that they're there under false pretenses. When the truth comes out, will they be able to forgive one another for the deception, or will the high stakes of trying to find love in front of an audience break them?