Newly divorced, single mother Kara has a full plate. She’s just inherited her mother’s sweet shop, is trying to learn how to deal with her ex’s new wife, and is being forced to join the PTA to try to get Mary Jane to fit in better at school. The Dame City Attraction Council is hosting the largest opening day parade ever, and even though she managed to mostly avoid them for all of the preparation work that went into being tourist-season-ready, it seems they’ve realized their mistake and they’re coming for her. A kissing booth. A real, pay-to-play kissing booth. Kara finally agrees to do it out of fear of retaliation from the council, even though it means sitting next to a man she’s known for forever but hasn’t actually liked in years. Levi Stone was handed the best hand in life. Born as a good-looking man in a town full of women, he never had to work very hard to get someone’s attention. He’s been called a lot of names because of his love of the opposite sex, most of them by Kara. She’s always been the one woman who couldn’t stand him. Kara Stuart is one of the only women in Dame City he hasn’t at least dated. Even though he’s convinced her he’s not interested in her in the slightest, it still irks him that she’s not the least bit affected by him. He doesn’t need the judgmental, sometimes hot looks she casts his way through her dorky glasses. Try as he might, however, he can’t ignore them. Prying hands get involved and the two are thrust together into a situation they can’t argue their way out of. Coming to an agreement to scratch an itch they both seem to have, they make the best of a bad situation. One and done, they agreed. Unfortunately, now that it’s done, Kara can’t stop thinking about doing it again. They keep finding themselves in compromising positions, despite the fact that they still don’t think they like each other very much. With the town filling up faster than ever, they should both be too busy to entertain the idea of the other. What do they do when they can’t help but gravitate together? Will they be able to ignore the tension and go back to annoying each other from a safe distance, or did they just set something in motion that neither of them are ready for? Tourist season has arrived in Dame City, and there’s nothing like a few thousand strangers and a “ bobbin’ for ball gags” competition to create a little heat.
