Romancing the Author — Julieann Dove

When romance writer Cara Shoemaker saw the text from her daughter, inviting her and her boyfriend Dalton to her unplanned wedding, she almost choked on her chocolate éclair. And that would've been better than admitting that for almost a year all those stories she'd told her daughter of excursions, candlelight dinners, and messages in the sand from her lover, were all made up. Cara did it to prove she was fine and there was no reason for her daughter to quit college to return home to hold her hand after what she referred to as the 'hit and run divorce' from her husband of nineteen years. Hiring an actor to be Dalton was her best friend's idea. But when Dominick showed up to fly across the country to be her lover for the wedding, Cara knew no one would believe it. Unlike her nerd of an ex-husband, Jim, Dominick met all the criteria as one of the characters in her books; tall, masculine, and the kind of guy that made your clothes fall off. And then there was the other problem...Cara had no idea what to do with a real life alpha male protagonist. And although she was controlling, overly organized, and required no coffee to maintain her energy levels, Dominick found himself falling for her.