Playing Along by Heather Miekstyn

A pharmaceutical sales rep caught in the middle of a murder investigation. A detective who will do anything to protect her. One moment that will change everything between them.

It’s been three years since Detective Jack Reynolds last saw Nora Evans. Three years since their relationship went up in flames, and he walked away carrying a torch for her that he never could quite manage to snuff out. When Nora shows up on his front doorstep in desperate need of his help, he knows he has two choices: help her or—actually, with her arresting green eyes pleading up at him he can’t seem to remember the second choice.
For Nora, showing up on Jack’s doorstep was a last resort, at her wit’s end, never did she ever consider that this could happen sort of deal. But here she is. And much to her annoyance, Jack looks just as good as she remembers. Scratch that, he looks even better. Worse, he actually agrees to help her. How is she supposed to harbor feelings of ill-will toward him now?
Things only get more complicated when helping Nora unexpectedly necessitates a courthouse elopement. As the pair get further entangled in the web of lies they’ve woven, old wounds between them resurface, friendships are tested, and their very lives are endangered.

Will their fake marriage survive the week or will their vow till death do us part become a frightening reality?

Trigger Warning: This book contains an assault attempt.