The Ex Files

Cassandra Reynolds can see a red flag from a mile away.

In fact, it’s her job. A favor for a friend in college who was afraid she’d been catfished soon turned into a full-blown business. Now, as the owner of The Ex Files, a matchmaking service based in Ocean View, she dates men nearly every day of the week to vet them, ensuring the matches she makes are well informed and free of heartache.

With her job comes pitfalls: every man she meets is hiding something, trying to impress and not showing his true colors. It’s just not worth the emotional stress to even try anymore. But when she has to attend her father’s wedding, she realizes—after years of matchmaking—she has no date of her own to bring to the event.

His sisters want him to have the happily-ever-after their parents had.

When mechanic Luke Dawson helps a woman on the side of the road, he didn’t think it would be the matchmaker his sisters set him up with. But just one date is all it takes for him to decide that he’s not going for a match — he’s interested in the matchmaker herself.

Now it’s his job to convince her to give him a shot without scaring her off, but try after try he keeps running into the strict rules she’s crafted to protect herself.

Can he get past her walls and make her see they’d be a perfect match if she let herself fall?