For two vowed rivals who engage in a harmless fling in Jen DeLuca's hilarious debut romantic comedy, everything is fair in love and war. Who could have predicted being forced into helping at the neighbourhood Renaissance Faire with her teenage niece when Emily moved to the little hamlet of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to assist her sister in recovering from an accident? Or that she would find it impossible to stop thinking about the disagreeable and perplexing schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers? The faire is Simon's family legacy, and he is clear from the first that he has little patience for Emily's lighter outlook on life, her bizarre views about Shakespeare, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she's in her revealing wench's costume. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they're portraying? This summer was only ever supposed to be a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can't seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek.