Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancé Kevin has left her. His new lover is Lucy’s own sister. Lucy's bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy's parents, Kevin asks his friend Sam Nolan, a local vineyard owner on San Juan Island, to "romance" Lucy and hopefully loosen her up and get her over her anger. Complications ensue when Sam and Lucy begin to fall in love, Kevin has second thoughts, and Lucy discovers that the new relationship in her life began under false pretenses. Questions about love, loyalty, old patterns, mistakes, and new beginnings are explored as Lucy learns that some things in life—even after being broken—can be made into something new and beautiful.

This blurb (and the one included on the back of the book) is misleading. To me, this gives the impression that the greatest obstacle to the romance is nothing but a big misunderstanding and if the hero had been a better man, he'd never have created this mess.

Because I love this book and don't want readers to NOT read it for that reason, I want to state loud and clear that there is no false pretense. The hero is not a jerk who takes his friend up on an offer to pass off his girlfriend like used goods. In fact, Kevin and Sam aren't even friends. Sam grew up with Kevin, who was a jerk when they were kids and remains one as an adult. Just in case that "I'm leaving you for your sister" wasn't a big enough clue.