Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 3.5 stars rounded up to 4 four Goodreads.

I'm disappointed that I don't have a new favorite Katherine Center book, but this one just fell short for me. As someone that is not a huge romance reader or a huge reader of women's fiction, when I do read those books I find that I like when the romance starts occurring at least halfway through the book, not at the very end. I'd say that this one is definitely more fiction than romance.

Katherine did have representation of epilepsy and school shooting recovery, but I felt like the school shooting recovery was just used as a plot device to justify why a character is absolutely rude to his coworkers. While I appreciate the plot tools that Katherine used to explain how Duncan became how he is now versus how Sam knew him in California, I hate when I absolutely despise a character until after halfway through.

If you find that you prefer romance fiction that is very enemy to lovers and romance doesn't come until end of the book, then I would recommend that you pick upWhat You Wish For . I am still looking forward to her other books as I loved Things You Save in a Fire and How to Walk Away.

TW: epilepsy, school shooting PTSD