Hi! We’re MéLisa Ryun, high school sweethearts who write steamy open-door romantic comedies so hot they’ll melt your Kindle. Our mission? To give you love stories that are so hilarious they’ll have you laughing like a tipsy bridesmaid, ugly-crying into your wine, and drooling over book boyfriends hotter than a Vegas summer—or a shirtless Henry Cavill.

Hi, I’m Nora Denton—third-grade teacher, chronic overplanner, and proud creator of a twelve-page checklist meant to stop me from dating another Owen Hatcher.

It worked for eight years.

Then Owen shows up with his stupid smirk, an even stupider beard, and an eight-year-old I definitely wasn’t expecting. A cute little girl with clip-on pearls, emergency hard candies, and the soul of all four Golden Girls combined.

Fast-forward through one panicked lie and its catastrophic effects, and Owen is now my fake fiancé.

I make rules. Owen finds loopholes. I use my teacher voice. He’s way too pleased to be scolded. And that ridiculous beard I’ve spent weeks insulting is becoming impossible not to imagine between my thighs.

One carefully planned life.

One very inconvenient ex.

And one little girl who is becoming dangerously easy to love.

My attraction to Owen is an irritating biological fact that I can work around. But the tiny voice wondering if this time could be different? That one needs to shut up immediately.