Lipstick and Lassos by Dawn Luedecke

He kissed her again. His mouth not just claiming hers, but caressing her with a reverence she didn’t know could show with a kiss. That was until Caleb pulled his head back.
“Oh, crap.”
“What?” She let her heartbeat force her breath to even out. He stared down at her with apology written all over his face.
“I rolled us into poison ivy.”
Veterinarian and former Willow Springs High School football star, Caleb Walker isn’t the attention thirsty man he used to be. For starters, he now prefers to stay out of the spotlight, and definitely isn’t interested in the marriage hungry women chasing him down. But when the Mayor of the town calls on him to headline the town’s bachelor auction, he finds himself once again thrown into small town stardom. But he has a plan. Enlist a fake girlfriend, and Marni Chisolm is the perfect woman to take on the task, especially since she seems to be the only one in town not trying to impress him.
Cowgirl and tomboy Marni Chisolm grew up being the girl the guys came to when they needed a fake girlfriend. So when the new vet in town and Marni’s old crush, Caleb Walker, approaches her with a proposal to do just that, she jumps at the chance. Especially since it means free medical care for her beloved horse. She soon discovers those feelings she had for him way back when may not be gone after all.
With each day that passes in their ruse, Caleb find himself more and more drawn to the spunky, independent woman. The only question now is can convince her to take a real chance on him?