Renee Roszel

This was an ok book...the heroine is a needy girl who constantly goes back to her best guy pal every time her love life hits rock bottom.  He constantly lets her come back even though he is maddly in love with her.  I think she is too needy, and that they should have hooked up a lot sooner in the book. 

Lucy Crosby loved
her stepbrother Jack Gallagher as family. Jack had loved Lucy for years. When
Lucy had her engagement broken by a letter from her long absent fiancée,
Stadler, who subsequently visited with his new fiancée, Lucy’s family were all
outraged. Jack suggested

To ease her grandfather’s mind   Mercy Stewart told him she was married to Damon DeMorney  (her employer’s Josephine’s
grand-nephew).  Through a twist of fate
(via “aunt Jo”) she ended up working as chef on Damon’s yacht and her
grandfather arrived. Damon perpetuated the lie and pretended to be her husband.

Trisha was
working in a coffee shop while trying to get a loan for her own doggie
boutique. She meets Lassiter Dragan, focused, highly successful
businessman  when he enters to get a cup

Wildly good-looking Noah Barrett is a dream of a hired husband. Affectionate, caring, he should easily convince Sally Johnson's visiting family that he's a doting father for Sally's soon-to-be-born baby!

Elaine Stuben was losing her home as well as losing her
business. Her husband had overcommitted her and left her in debt. Debts that
Mitchell Stuben now owned.  He arrives
two weeks early and takes up residence. Mitchell  makes a bargain with her to gain access to her father-in-law. A
man he had been unable to access. Mitchell’s business was to take over

Taggart Lancaster has been bailing his best friend out of trouble since they were nine. When his friend is arrested, Taggart agrees to assume his friend's identity to visit the other man's ailing grandmother, Miz Witty, on her birthday.

This is a delightfully sweet, humorous romance with a delightful couple of strangers pretending to be married to avoid the disapprobation of her Boston grandparents.