The Better Stand-In

Synopsis

Claire Linwood spent three years chasing Henry Shaw, the spoiled rich heir everyone swore she would die for. But Henry was never the man in her heart. The one Claire truly loved was his late older brother, Samuel Shaw. The morning after Henry finally agrees to date her, Claire wakes up beside Lucas Reed, Henry's gentle twenty-two-year-old cousin. Henry sent him to keep her company while he ran off to dote on someone else. Lucas looks even more like Samuel than Henry does, and unlike Henry, he offers Claire kindness... and a way back into the Shaw family cemetery, where the man she lost is buried. Claire marries Lucas on impulse, but a marriage born from grief is never simple. When Henry realizes he was only the substitute and starts chasing the woman he once took for granted, Claire has to face one brutal question: is Lucas just another stand-in, or the only man who can finally teach her how to love again?