My alarm was set for six and hadn’t gone off yet, but my daughters had been up for at least twenty minutes. While the girls were still asleep in my room, I stripped their twin beds and stuffed the bedding into big garbage bags. My new neighbor is a firefighter--and 𝐚 𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐝--but I swear I didn’t set off that smoke alarm on purpose. But I was here, I was trying my best, and I always put my children first—which was more than my father had done.

The instant connection between the MCs made for some great tension when they were fighting their feelings, and made the moment they finally accepted them even more touching. But it had taken me a solid twenty minutes of working on the gum in Luna’s hair before I gave up and cut it out, and then Hallie hadn’t been able to find her lucky penny. Dex and I might be twelve years apart, but the fire between us is the kind that will never burn out. Towards the end it got really cheesy but I managed to overlook it) Both leads were likeable as individuals but even better together.

She lifts her glass to readers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.

One day, one of the girls gets it stuck in her hair and he doesn't even bother to try and brush it out and get it out.I’m not into ex drama, or broken trust and inability or try again - cause usually we get those elements in most of those novels. And the thing is, it's not hard to learn to do even pigtails and know how to brush hair with a little bit of effort. Dex and Winnie have stolen my heart, ripped it out, broken it into tiny pieces and sewn it back together again over a 98 minute period. She made a bet with a friend to go 6 months without falling in love but what happens when she agrees to be friends with benefits with her hot new neighbor and tries to keep her heart out of it.