THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What do you do when a sexy, older man moves into your family\u2019s summer rental?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, apparently, you make a fool of yourself\u2014over and over. Things didn\u2019t exactly get off on the right foot with Noah Cavallari. Our first encounter was embarrassing, to say the least.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But despite that, I found myself waking up every day with a newfound energy. Nothing exciting ever happened on the lake\u2014not until Noah moved into the small boathouse on our property. He\u2019d booked it for the entire summer\u2026and I was still trying to figure out why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When my mother became ill, I inherited the responsibility of making sure our guests were well taken care of. I should have been finishing up college. Instead, I was living my best life\u2026as a maid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dark, handsome, and mysterious, everything about Noah screamed forbidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I knew he was just passing through town for the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I knew he was probably a little old for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet, I was drawn to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not to mention, he tried to save my life when he mistakenly thought I was drowning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wanted him and made no secret of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His own attempts to warn me away soon gave way to late-night moonlight chats by the lake. We were slowly easing into a friendship that was gearing up to explode into something I might not recover from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because he\u2019s leaving at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And I have no idea what I\u2019ll do when August ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":784,"template":"","format":[21,19,20],"meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false},"series":[26],"trope":[65],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":65,"label":"Age Gap"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"}],"writtenby":[{"value":16,"label":"Penelope Ward"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/PWWhenAugustEndsBookCover5x8_HIGH-636x1024.jpg",636,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}