Sunnyville was just a place to stop for a while and resuscitate my life-until I met Ford Monroe. To all the other women in town, he's a player. To his ex, he's a failure she doesn't want around their kid. But to me, he's a paramedic and my partner and my best friend. Dating isn't worth ruining the best relationship I've ever had, no matter how hot he is. But when my ex-fiancé comes to town to woo me back and Ford's ex-fiancée claims he's a poor role model for his son, Ford has an idea. An idea so crazy it might just work to get both our exes off our backs. ***Fake dating the only woman who can resist my charms shouldn't have backfired. But I've spent more than a year trying to pretend Lia Wescott isn't the sexiest, smartest woman I've ever met. It's not long before working together isn't enough and we're no longer pretending to date-we're doing the real thing.I'm getting the life back that was taken away years ago and enjoying time with my new girlfriend and my son. Until my ex drops a worst case scenario on me, and I'm suddenly faced with choosing between the two most important people in my lifeMarie Johnston's Shock is a friends-to-lovers contemporary romance written in K. Bromberg's Everyday Heroes World project.