Sunglasses and Attitude. Straw Hats and Old Lace, #5

"If you tell me I'm a marshmallow in the middle, I'm going to hit you."It didn't take tourist John Somerville long to realize Jane Barrett, grocery store owner, was living a lie. Although she pretends to be hard, cold, and in charge of her life, the lady is a poet who dreams of love, adventure, and family. Yep, a marshmallow in the middle. John is good with that, because secretly he has the means to rescue her.
The moment he meets her, he invents a plan to give her the life she wants. And yes, he imagines that life being spent with him. Except for one problem. Everything he's ever told her is a lie, including his name, and he can't hide the truth forever. That's too bad, because his house-of-cards world is about to fall, and it turns out John needs a rescue as much or more than Jane ever did. But his deception has sent her back inside her hard shell, protecting the soft center he so sorely needs, and it may be too late to fix things. Grab Sunglasses and Attitude, a Straw Hats and Old Lace novella about identity, love, and the pitfalls of being hard on the outside with a soft, marshmallow middle.
Contemporary Christian romance.