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A Small Town, Marriage of Convenience, Country Music Star romance from Amazon bestselling author Susan Henshaw.
He could give her the world. All she wants is his last name.
Ford
Two Grammys, sold-out arenas, and more money than I know what to do with. It’s everything I dreamed of.Well…almost.
No matter how many times I propose, my best friend keeps shooting me down. After her latest ’no,’ I finally get the message.
Then Peyton shows up in tears, looking at me like I'm her only hope—before slowly sinking to one knee herself.
Peyton
Do I love Ford as a friend? Yes. As something more?
It’s irrelevant.
What I want stopped mattering the day I saw two pink lines staring back at me.
When my ex sues for custody, and I lose my house and my job in the same week, the judge is thirty days to get my life together—or lose my son too.
Now I have to convince my perpetually-proposing best friend to fake a marriage and pretend he's okay with 'I do' meaning 'I don’t.’
Because if Ford finds out the secret I’ve been keeping, it wouldn't just make him run—it would erase every 'I love you' he's ever meant.
About Susan Henshaw
Callie Mae Shaw/Susan Henshaw is an Amazon Best-selling author and an unapologetic romantic who can’t stop seeing potential love stories everywhere—church potlucks, high school football games, even the soup aisle at her local grocery store.
She writes emotional, angsty romances about realistic, imperfect people fighting to protect their hearts, and a family whose love is so fierce, it feels like home.
When she’s not busy torturing fictional couples, she’s teaching fitness classes, bribing her teenager to eat real food, and checking her phone to see if her adult children have remembered she exists.
Her stories grow on a large patch of land in rural Virginia that feels like a dream—where fireflies dance through the night air, bullfrogs sing from the river, and the deer and bunnies are basically her coworkers.
My Thoughts
Susan Henshaw closes out The Seddledowne Series of interconnected standalones with a masterful, deeply emotional, small-town romance in It Was Nothing. Narrated brilliantly by Christine Lakin and Tim Paige, this highly anticipated story delivers all the angst, heart, and complexity readers have come to expect from the Dupree family.
After the dramatic events of Here's the Thing, fans have been anxiously awaiting Ford's story, and it is even better than anticipated. Ford, a country music star with two Grammys and sold-out arenas, has everything... except the one woman he truly loves. For years, he’s been perpetually proposing to his best friend, Peyton, only to be continuously turned down.
Peyton loves Ford as a friend, but there’s a secret she’s been keeping—a secret big enough to ruin everything. When her life crumbles—she loses her job, her house, and faces an ex-husband suing for custody of her son—a desperate Peyton sinks to one knee herself. She needs a marriage of convenience to save her son, and Ford, her forever-proposing best friend, is her only hope.
Ford, though yearning for a real marriage, agrees to pretend 'I do' means 'I don’t,' hoping his family’s suggestion that this temporary arrangement will finally win Peyton over for good. But if Ford discovers the truth Peyton is hiding, it wouldn't just make him run—it would erase every sincere "I love you" he’s ever meant.
This novel shines as a beautiful and heartfelt love story that is anything but easy. The dual timeline structure uses essential flashbacks to fully paint the picture of Ford and Peyton's complicated past, showing readers how they’ve evolved from their early days to their high-stakes present.
Ford’s journey is truly a redemption story. Readers who have followed the series will especially appreciate how far he has come from a difficult past filled with addiction and mistakes. His fiercely persistent love for Peyton is wonderful, and his hard-fought path to an earned happily-ever-after is incredibly satisfying. The author handles the difficult themes with sensitivity and empathy, making the emotional highs and lows deeply resonant.
Christine Lakin and Tim Paige bring this journey to life with brilliant narration, ensuring the listener is invested in every laugh, tear, and moment of conflict. While It Was Nothing can be read as a standalone, we highly recommend starting the series from the beginning, or at least with Book 3 (All To Pieces), to fully appreciate the complex dynamics of the Dupree family and Ford's significant growth.
If you love angsty, high-drama, small-town romance with a marriage of convenience trope, a great amount of banter, and a hard-won love, then download this wild ride today.
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