Terrance "Turk" Wozniak has spent his whole career taking hits for other people. Six-foot-six, the most penalized man in the league, and the only parent his thirteen-year-old sister has left, he can fight for anyone except himself. When a judge grants him six more months to prove he can raise Kirsten alone, "anyone except himself" isn't going to be enough.
Ada Nwosu has a five-year plan that's running a year late, a town that still calls her seasonal, and a library that might not survive the county's next budget vote. She also has an idea: Turk needs a second adult the court can see. She needs a reason this town might actually want to keep her. All it will cost either of them is pretending, publicly and convincingly, for one season, then walking away clean when the hearing's over in March.
Nothing on paper. Nothing untrue. Just two careful people learning exactly how much a lie of omission can cost once it starts to feel like something neither of them wants to end.
By December, the arrangement is a lot easier to break than it was to make. By February, neither of them is only playing a part. And by March, when a judge, a courtroom, and one very perceptive thirteen-year-old all want the same honest answer, Turk and Ada are going to have to decide whether "until March" was ever really the plan at all.
A slow-burn, fake-dating, single-guardian romance set in a dying Lake Superior hockey town, for readers who want their happily-ever-afters earned, not easy.
Contains open-door romantic content and themes of custody proceedings and family loss. Recommended for adult readers.
Genre: Romance
Ada Nwosu has a five-year plan that's running a year late, a town that still calls her seasonal, and a library that might not survive the county's next budget vote. She also has an idea: Turk needs a second adult the court can see. She needs a reason this town might actually want to keep her. All it will cost either of them is pretending, publicly and convincingly, for one season, then walking away clean when the hearing's over in March.
Nothing on paper. Nothing untrue. Just two careful people learning exactly how much a lie of omission can cost once it starts to feel like something neither of them wants to end.
By December, the arrangement is a lot easier to break than it was to make. By February, neither of them is only playing a part. And by March, when a judge, a courtroom, and one very perceptive thirteen-year-old all want the same honest answer, Turk and Ada are going to have to decide whether "until March" was ever really the plan at all.
A slow-burn, fake-dating, single-guardian romance set in a dying Lake Superior hockey town, for readers who want their happily-ever-afters earned, not easy.
Contains open-door romantic content and themes of custody proceedings and family loss. Recommended for adult readers.
Genre: Romance
Used availability for Sienna Blake's Until March