crossing the border into love. snap decisions and misguided ideas bring portuguese national mateus fontes and businessman crawford hargrave together at the canadian border crossing. mateus is caught in a catch-22. with his almost-expired tourist visa, entrance to canada is denied, but the us won't let him back in either. crawford thinks he's solved things when he tells the border agent they're engaged, and it works--except now they have to actually get married before either of them can get back into the united states. but crawford has been burned by marriage once, and he's determined not to make that mistake again. neither of them expects real feelings to bloom out of their fake marriage, but they do. and the two of them have to learn how to be honest with each other to make things work, which is especially hard when their entire marriage is based on lies.