When her smug ex shows up to Thanksgiving dinner with a fiancée on his arm, Harper refuses to be the pathetic, pining ex-girlfriend at the table. Desperate, she turns to the one man she knows will turn heads—her ridiculously hot next-door neighbor, a grease-stained, muscle-bound mechanic with a devil's smile. Cole agrees to play the part of doting boyfriend for one night… but sparks fly the moment his arm wraps around her waist. Every lingering touch and whispered word feels far too real. And when the pretending turns into heated kisses under the kitchen table and stolen moments in the hallway, Harper starts to wonder if she's faking it anymore. What started as a holiday ruse quickly becomes a night of passion neither can forget. But when the weekend ends, will they go back to being neighbors—or dare to admit the truth simmering between them? A fake dating Thanksgiving romance with steamy slow burns, possessive touches, and a HEA that tastes better than pumpkin pie.