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Canadian Boyfriend by Jenny Holiday
4.25
adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced

I loved the premise! Rory, while a teen working at a mall, meets a Canadian hockey player Mike Martin, she proceeds to claim him as her Canadian Boyfriend even though they only met briefly twice. She writes him letters she doesn't have anywhere to send and take trips to see said boyfriend. She wants to be seen more than just a ballet dancer.

Then as an adult, she meets him again though she only has inklings that he's the same guy. His daughter is in her dance class and they lost their wife/mother not too long ago.  She is befriended by him and his to live with him to take care of his daughter while he's on the road for hockey.

There is a lot to deal with with these two. Grief and raising a kid alone for him, an eating disorder and toxicity from a parent for her.
But I loved the journey of healing they both go through. I loved the "we can PDA and more while daughter is away but keep it clean while she's around". I was so happy when Rory finally stood up to her Mom. I really laughed at how she always called Mike by his first and last name in her head.