In order to fool his mother into thinking he doesn’t need her help, he asks Isabel to be his fake girlfriend. His mother is determined to make him stay and she thinks the only way to do that is to have him fall in love and get married to a Fool’s Gold resident, so she opens a booth collecting applications from women looking to date and eventually marry Ford and his brother, Kent. Now he’s started a business with friends of his and they’ve made Fool’s Gold their base of business. He’s been a Navy Seal for the past ten years and kept himself away from his hometown, preferring to meet up with his family elsewhere when he did see them. Now that they’re both back in Fool’s Gold, Isabel tries to avoid running into him, but it’s kind of hard to do now that he’s rented the apartment over the garage at her parent’s house.įord Hendrix has finally returned to Fool’s Gold. When her sister dumped him, he joined the Navy and Isabel wrote to him consistently for ten years, never once receiving a letter in return. Isabel’s been in love with Ford since she was 14 and he was engaged to her sister. She’s also been avoiding a certain Hendrix. Isabel’s in Fool’s Gold temporarily to get her family’s bridal salon in updated in order to sell it so she can have the capital to move back to New York and open her own store with a designer friend of hers. She’s recently divorced after her husband left her for another man.

Isabel is a native of Fool’s Gold who just returned after living several years in New York. Love gave a man courage when he didn’t have a right to any. Source: via Netgalley/Harlequin for an honest reviewįavorite Quotes: (as this is an ARC, these quotes may not make it to the final draft) The man who gave up on love has a reason to stay in Fool’s Gold forever-if three little words can convince Isabel to do the same… Now he can’t take his eyes-or his lips-off her. Back when heartbreak made him join the military, her sweet letters kept him sane. Seeing Isabel all grown up hits bodyguard trainer Ford like a sucker punch. At least, that’s the plan, until sexy, charming Ford returns and leaves her feeling fourteen all over again…. So Isabel has come home to dust off her passion for fashion and run the family bridal shop until her parents are ready to sell it. Her teenage crush, Ford Hendrix, ignored all her letters. Isabel Carlisle thinks she’s cursed in the romance department.

Three little words by susan mallery