Part of Boys of Avix
First published 2024
He had everything mapped out. College. A starting spot on a Division I roster. His name called on draft day. Then his best friend's little sister walked in and none of that felt like enough anymore. She is not available in any simple sense. She lost the boy she loved, the father of her unborn child, and her heart went into the ground with him. He knows he cannot fight a ghost. So he stays close the only way she will allow, as a friend. Then her son is born, and something shifts. The baby changes the math entirely. She tells him to go. Focus on football. Build the future he always wanted. He cannot do it. Not because he is reckless, but because his future has quietly reorganized itself around her and her little boy. Meagan Brandy's Promise Me Not, released October 1, 2024, is a story about a man who discovers that wanting something badly enough to walk away from it is its own kind of love, and about a woman learning whether her heart has room for someone new.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, emotional, heartfelt, intimate, tender
Tropes: forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
Period: 2024
400 pages · Paperback · Bloom Books
Content warnings: death, pregnancy-loss