About The Plus One Promise by Hailey Brooks
Nell Marlow bakes for a living, keeps her head down, and does not do reckless. So when the words fly out of her mouth at exactly the wrong moment, telling the whole town she has a date to the Spring Social, she has no idea who she is going to bring.
Sawyer Reed came to Cedar Hollow to restore an old picture house and leave before anyone learned his name. He is good with his hands, bad at staying, and the last man who should agree to pretend to be anyone’s boyfriend.
The deal is simple. Four weeks. One social. No feelings. She gets to save face in front of the town that watched her grow up, and he gets a reason to be somewhere warm on the nights the empty theatre gets too loud.
But Cedar Hollow is small, the string lights are soft, and there is one slow song neither of them planned on. Underneath the fake dates and the ground rules, the true thing keeps trying to get out, in a town where hiding something beautiful never lasts for long.
The Plus One Promise is the first book in The Marlow Sisters, a small-town fake-dating romance duet. Sweet, slow-burn, and low-heat, with a guaranteed happily ever after and no cliffhanger.
FREE on Kindle July 15–19, 2026.
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