The Challenge: A Single Dad Romance
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Release date: August 30, 2026
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romanceā¦
Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreakā¦and his little girl.
Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my familyās old belongings.
Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricciās house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place Iād rented. Heād taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay.
Evanāthe guy my parents took in years ago after his mother died.
The same Evan who used to dare me into ridiculous challenges that somehow always made me strongerāa game weād dubbed The Challenge.
The same guy who ultimately rejected me before I left for college after Iād finally garnered the courage to shoot my shot.
Now Evan was a rugged single dad with an eight-year-old daughter, a cocky attitude, and a dangerous ability to make me forget every reason I should still hate him.
Sharing a house with him shouldāve been unbearable. Instead, it felt dangerously familiar, nearly making me forget that I had a life and a job to get back to in Chicago. I realized the biggest challenge wasnāt surviving living with Evan Ricci.
It was not falling in love with him all over again.
