by Vi Keeland
First published 2019
After twenty years with her high school sweetheart, she is done with dating. Her best friend has other ideas. Without asking, the friend builds a dating profile targeting men aged twenty-one to twenty-seven, and somehow it goes live. That is how she starts messaging Ford Donovan. He is young, funny, and persistent, and after weeks of back-and-forth she agrees to one date, just one, mostly out of curiosity. She walks into the restaurant and Ford turns around at the bar. He looks familiar. He is familiar. He is the boy from the family summer house next door, only grown. She walks straight back out and tells herself the whole thing is finished. She means it. Then summer arrives. Ford shows up at his family's place again, right next door. The age gap has not changed. The pull between them has not either. Vi Keeland's standalone romance puts two people in close quarters and makes them reckon with what they actually want, not just what makes sense on paper.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, nostalgic, romantic, tension-filled
Tropes: age-gap-romance, childhood-friends-to-lovers, forced-proximity, second-chance-romance
Setting: family summer house
329 pages · Paperback · Independently published