"I'm so excited to meet that boyfriend of yours."

Ashley couldn't help saying,

"What!"

I looked up at her gesturing for her to be quiet.

Crap! I completely forgot about that lie. I was supposed to have told them already that it was just a joke. But I'd been so swamped with work and I completely forgot.

"Yeah," I said. "He's excited too."

...

I dialed Ashley's number.

"Hello?" she said on the other side of the line.

"I changed my mind. Let's find me a boyfriend."

ANDREA is a math teacher who specializes in facts and wishes her mother could get off her back about getting married.

HE'S a doctor who hasn't had the best of luck with woman and just came out of a really horrible relationship.

When Andrea accidentally gets her mother to believe she has a boyfriend she tells herself she'll fix it later. But month later when her mother reminds her again about it and how excited they are for her to bring her new boyfriend home this Christmas, Andrea has to find a stand in as soon as possible. After a series of blind dates she finds the perfect fake boyfriend.

But her fake boyfriend has a little secret.