Elizabeth D'Onofrio

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.

A romance editor is tasked with helping a mystery writer incorporate romance into his next book. He volunteers to be her fake date for her sister's beach wedding in return for her editing skills.