Lily Writes

The Fake Boyfriend Situation Has Escalated

Some stories walk into your life like a six-foot-four former NFL linebacker who has been in love with the heroine for two years, even though she can’t remember his name, and has absolutely no intention of letting her get away.

LOVE WINS is officially live!

This book has been such a joy to write because at its heart it’s a story about learning to believe you’re worthy of being loved.

Dory Lennox has spent most of her life waiting.

Waiting for the right person. Waiting for fate. Waiting for Pink Match™ to find her soulmate.

She’s surrounded by people who seem to have life figured out while she’s still wondering why love never quite found her.

Then Bodi Howard steps into her life.

Well… technically, he’s been trying to step into her life for quite a while if she’d just look up from her clipboard and notice him.

Bodi knows exactly what he wants.

Dory.

The problem?

Dory doesn’t believe a man like Bodi could possibly want a woman like her.

What follows is one of my favorite romance journeys I’ve written—a fake relationship that turns very real, a family reunion cruise to Hawaii, plenty of forced proximity, and a hero who falls first, falls hard, and never once wavers.

Bodi might honestly be one of my favorite heroes in the Pink Match universe.

He’s protective without being controlling.
Strong without being intimidating.
Patient without being passive.

And underneath all those muscles is a man who looks at Dory and sees exactly who she is—even when she can’t see it herself.

This story is full of:

💗 Fake dating
🏝️ Hawaiian cruise romance
🏈 Former NFL hero
💕 He falls first
🌺 Forced proximity
😂 Family chaos
❤️ Soulmates
🔥 One bed
✨ Found family
💍 Happily Ever After

But more than anything, it’s about belonging.It’s about finding your people. It’s about letting yourself be chosen. And it’s about realizing that sometimes the thing you’ve been searching for has been standing right in front of you all along.

I hope you’ll fall in love with Bodi and Dory as much as I did.

(And wait until you meet his mom!)

LOVE WINS is available now in Kindle Unlimited.

Thank you, as always, for reading, supporting these characters, and spending time in Pinkerton Falls with me.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Bodi is probably building another shoe rack somewhere and Dory is pretending not to love it.

Happy reading!