Levi and Jane unexpectedly survive the unthinkable together. This prickly, quick-thinking nurse and analytical data analyst with a big protective streak took care of each other and lived to tell about it. 

But in a last-minute call to his family, Levi might have lied that he had a girlfriend. And Jane is the only woman that can save him from disappointing his meddling but loving family. But Jane is a loner. She has such abandonment and trust issues that she does not get close to people so they cannot send her away or hurt her. She is not the dating type or relationship material. She has one foot out the door ready to take on her next adventure. 

Levi understands not exactly fitting in as he is different from his family and left his hometown to get away and be his own man, but he understands the importance of home as well. He is perceptive, understanding, kind, patient, funny, and somehow gets her and actually likes her. And she ends up agreeing to help him to appease his family and spend time together with a built-in barrier.  But fake girlfriending gets more complicated when you actually like the guy you are fake dating and he seems to like you too. 

There is another enemies-to-love story brewing between her best friend and landlord, Charlotte, and their neighbor and Levi's old friend, Mateo. I was as invested in them as I was the main couple. Charlotte is guarded and untrusting as Jane when it comes to men and relationships. But she is the matriarch of her made family and has a big generous heart to spoil those she lets in. But she has been keeping Mateo pushed outside her walls. But Mateo is smart, patient, and determined to break them down piece by piece.  

This is a sweet, witty, emotional story of two stubborn, guarded women with fears and trust issues and two men who are willing to go the distance to prove that they are worthy of their trust. It is not a fast or easy process and requires patience to peel back their layers. So I will admit that sometimes it got a bit repetitive or it made me want to shake sense into the characters just a bit. It's about being vulnerable, trust, faith, home, and the heart of family. They truly need to allow others to see their messy parts so they can accept themselves and let someone in. All have histories that have hurt and damaged them in ways but together they have the potential to find hope and healing in order to move on and let love in.