{"id":815,"date":"2020-07-20T11:52:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/?post_type=books&p=815"},"modified":"2024-03-09T16:08:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:08:24","slug":"the-anti-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/books\/the-anti-boyfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new standalone novel.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At first, my neighbor Deacon frustrated me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, he was great-looking and friendly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But our walls were thin, and on occasion, he\u2019d bring women to his place and keep me awake while he \u201centertained\u201d them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a single mother to an infant, I didn\u2019t appreciate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, finally it was my turn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When my daughter wouldn\u2019t stop wailing one night, Mr. Manwhore came knocking on my door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miraculously, at the sound of his voice, Sunny stopped crying. And when he held her\u2026she eventually fell asleep in his arms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deacon was rough on the exterior, but apparently on the inside? Mr. Single-and-Ready-to-Mingle was a baby whisperer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After that night, we became friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019d go for coffee runs. Come over to chat. Normal friend stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But over time, our conversations ran deeper. We got closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until one night we crossed the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our friendship turned into a complicated mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d gone and fallen for a guy who\u2019d sworn off commitment and kids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I knew Deacon was starting to care for me too, even though Sunny and I didn\u2019t fit into any plan he\u2019d ever imagined for himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was wrong for me\u2014so wrong that I\u2019d dubbed him the \u201canti-boyfriend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then why did I wish more than anything that I could be the one woman to change him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":816,"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":[66,67],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":66,"label":"Close Proximity"},{"value":67,"label":"Friends to Lovers"}],"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\/2020\/07\/PWTheAntiBoyfriendBookCover5x8_MEDIUM-636x1024.jpg",636,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/815"}],"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\/816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=815"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}