by Liz Tomforde
First published 2025
Hallie Hart lands an interior design internship in Chicago, hoping to launch her dream career. She thinks the city is big enough to avoid Rio DeLuca, the hockey player who broke her heart six years ago. They were childhood neighbors who fell in love as teenagers before everything fell apart at nineteen. Hallie discovers she's moved right next door to Rio again. Worse, her first major project is renovating his bachelor pad into a family home. The job could secure her full-time position, but she can barely stand being in the same room with him. Rio has watched all his friends find love while he remains single. He's given up on romance until Hallie walks back into his life. His friends don't know the truth about the connection he's been chasing since moving to Chicago. He found his person at twelve years old, and now she's living next door again. Both must navigate their shared past while Hallie transforms his house and they confront the feelings that never truly disappeared.
Genres: romance, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance, new-adult-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, second-chance
Setting: Chicago
Period: 21st-century
432 pages · Paperback · Entangled: Amara