Daisy Flattery quit her teaching job to become an artist and storyteller. She dressed "like somebody from Little House on the Prairie on acid" which was why Lincoln Blaise, her upstairs neighbor, avoided her. He like dignity, calm, control, and quiet. But Linc lied in his interview for Prescott College. They were disappointed that he was not married, so he invented a fiancée. He needed the quiet academic atmosphere at Prescott to finish his book. He had a plan. "All he needed was a woman reasonable and reasonably attractive...who was willing to lie through her teeth and then quickly disappear." Daisy Flattery was a storyteller, so truth was not one of her virtues. Linc proposes a Cinderella Deal - a temporary arrangement with Daisy posing as his fiancée to secure his coveted position. All bets are off "at midnight" when he gets the job...or are they? This is a delightful, light-hearted, a bit-too-good-to-be-true romance suggesting that balance, compromise, and being true to oneself are essential to being happy ever after.
"Without struggle and adversity no story was really a story."
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