Allison Kensington has made some questionable decisions in her life, but inviting a software engineer she met at a bus stop to move into her house may be her most spectacular achievement yet. Tim Johnson, meanwhile, is delighted to discover that the beautiful, intimidating woman who recruited him as a fake girlfriend owns a charming Colonial with a white picket fence, a swing set, and a doghouse. For someone who claims to have given up on romance, Allison has assembled a remarkably convincing picture of domestic bliss. Tim considers it his responsibility to point this out, preferably before she finds something else to throw at him.
Of course, sharing a house involves more than finding room for an impressive quantity of designer clothing. Allison and Tim have an entire lifetime of ordinary things to discover about each other, and neither seems particularly inclined to behave like a temporary arrangement. Between unexpected tenderness, increasingly enthusiastic flirting, and the possibility that Allison's friends may be even more dangerous than she is, their carefully constructed plan for Paris is already developing complications. Tim came home with Allison expecting an adventure, but he's beginning to suspect that the most interesting discoveries won't have anything to do with impressing her ex-girlfriend.
