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DeLuca's enchanting tale of unsought love developing over home improvement tasks and making family members happy, cheerfully set against the charming backdrop of a Renaissance fair, is a joy to read.

Well Matched is completely charming and delightfully touching. DeLuca delivers a love story that leaves you feeling as warm and fuzzy as you are hot and bothered. April's vulnerability and humor are endearing and Mitch is book boyfriend goals in a kilt--I couldn't put it down.

Denise Williams, author of How to Fail at Flirting

With well-drawn characters and laugh-out-loud scenes, Well Matched is a perfect opposites-attract romance.

Single mother April Parker has lived in Willow Creek for eighteen years. As her children move out, April thinks it's time for a change and asks for help to sell the house. Mitch Malone, a local heart-throb, agrees to help, on one condition: she'll pretend to be his girlfriend at a family dinner. April agrees and after the dinner, they part ways. As summer begins and Mitch's family shows up unexpectedly, April pretends to be Mitch's girlfriend again. Despite their obvious connection, April insists there's nothing between them. April must figure out what she really wants before she loses the love of her life.

Fall in love with the glorious fake-dating, friends-to-lovers romance that has TikTok swooning! 
 
'A fun vacation in a book' 5***** Reader Review 
'Perhaps my favourite book ever! I honestly couldn't put it down' 5***** Reader Review 
'So well-written, witty and engaging. LOVE THIS BOOK' 5***** Reader Review 
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Single mother April is soon to be an empty nester. For twelve years she's lived in Willow Creek with a wall around her heart. Now it's time to move on, and she asks friend Mitch to help get her house ready for sale. 
 
Buff Mitch Malone is best known for the kilt (and not much else) that he wears to the town's Renaissance Faire. He agrees to help April, in return for a favour: will she pretend to be his girlfriend at a family dinner, to silence all the talk? But when dinner turns into a weekend trip, April wonders if she can fake a relationship for so long. 
 
As summer comes round, Faire returns to Willow Creek, and April volunteers for the first time. Then Mitch's family show up unexpectedly, and he needs her to be his fake girlfriend again. 
 
Only this time, April wonders just how fake she and Mitch are becoming . . . 
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Readers are obsessed with the Willow Creak series! 
 
'A pure joy to read. Utterly delightful. I didn't want it to end' 5***** Reader Review 
'THIS is how you write modern romance!' 5***** Reader Review 
'This gave me all the butterflies, all the feels, all the heart skipping beats' 5***** Reader Review 
'Completely in love with this book! A must read' 5***** Reader Review 
'A gorgeous enemies-to-lovers romance' 5***** Reader Review 
'Well Met left me swooning' 5***** Reader Review

Jen DeLuca was born and raised in Virginia, and has recently swapped Florida for the Arizona desert, where she lives with her husband and a houseful of rescue pets. 
She's worked as an ice-show dresser, a wardrobe master, a makeup consultant, and a paralegal. She likes latte-flavored lattes, Hokies football, and the Oxford comma.

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