New York Times Bestselling author Denise Grover Swank writing as Rachel Thorne.

She was supposed to be getting married in three days.
Just not to him.

Megan
After dumping my cheating fiancé, I fly home dreading the moment I have to tell my terrifying mother the wedding is off. But thanks to a Dramamine-and-champagne disaster at the airport, I pass out on the plane… and wake up with a handsome stranger posing as my fiancé.

Josh
I only meant to help.
Really.
But when Megan’s family mistakes me for the missing groom—and playing along helps with the real reason I’m in Kansas City—I go with it.

Megan
Now I’m trapped in a nightmare week of wedding festivities with a guy who refuses to help me stage a public breakup. And unfortunately for me, Josh plays the role of attentive fiancé a little too convincingly. He’s kind, infuriatingly attractive, and entirely too good at making me forget he’s only supposed to be temporary.

But the closer we get to the wedding—and to each other—the messier the lie becomes. And somewhere in the middle of all the wedding-week chaos, my substitute fiancé starts to feel like the real thing.

The Substitute is a sweet, closed-door romcom packed with a fake engagement, banter, chemistry, and wedding-week chaos.

Note: This edition of The Substitute is a sweet/closed-door adaptation of the previously published New York Times Bestselling steamy version written as Denise Grover Swank.