<p><strong>Laugh-out-loud funny with cover-to-cover banter and red-hot heat.&nbsp;Dirty Little Midlife Mess&nbsp;is not your typical fake relationship romance. It's better.</strong><br><br>Simone owes handsome broody Wesley Byron a favor and he's calling it in.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He needs a maid.</p><p>Yes like the type that cleans a house. Black and white uniform not included (she asked).</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Except on Simone's first day she finds herself wrapped up in Wes's muscular arms as he introduces her to his family using the word girlfriend instead of maid.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Then he ducks his head and whispers two words against her ear:&nbsp;<em>Play along</em>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For a woman who dealt with a difficult man for eleven years (and divorced him) those words are like throwing a lit match into a box of fireworks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>She'll play along. She might even have fun with it.<br>And when the explosions start everyone will enjoy the show...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em><strong>Plucky heroine wants to start over. Brooding grump wants to be left alone. Small town rumor mill starts churning. Hilarity ensues. Heat escalates. Then escalates again. Then escalates&nbsp;again. Kaboom. Who said your forties had to be boring?</strong></em></p>