{"id":852,"date":"2023-01-23T13:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=852"},"modified":"2024-03-09T16:01:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T16:01:34","slug":"toe-the-line","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/books\/toe-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Toe the Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0Bestseller.<\/strong><br><strong>From\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a friends-to-lovers story spanning more than a decade&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, I thought I\u2019d hate spending the summer with Archie Remington\u2014the conceited son of my parents\u2019 friends.<br>What I knew about Archie: he was gorgeous, pre-law, and had always treated me like I didn\u2019t exist when we were younger.<br>When our families bought a house together on an island in Maine, he and I were forced to share a bathroom.<br>The boy I remembered was now a full-grown man\u2014but with the same attitude.<br>After a rough start, Archie and I unexpectedly started getting along one day and eventually became friends. We shared secrets and bonded during our morning jogs. I discovered that Archie had a wild spirit and that he struggled to conform to his father\u2019s expectations.<br>Things were cool until I had to go and ruin it, getting drunk one night, and blurting out my fantasy\u2014involving him.<br>I took it back, but it was too late. Archie had heard me loud and clear. After that, we never quite knew how to toe the line.<br>When that summer came to an abrupt and shocking end, I headed back to college, unsure if anything would ever be the same again.<br>Across the miles over the years, he and I stayed in touch as friends, but fate and timing always kept us from becoming more.<br>You know the saying: If two people are meant to be, they\u2019ll find their way back to each other?<br>Let\u2019s just say Archie came back into my life in a way I would\u2019ve never expected.<br>And this time, my heart would really be put to the test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":853,"template":"","format":[21,19,20,22],"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":[67,69],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":67,"label":"Friends to Lovers"},{"value":69,"label":"Second Chance"}],"format":[{"value":21,"label":"Ebook"},{"value":19,"label":"Audiobook"},{"value":20,"label":"Paperback"},{"value":22,"label":"Hardcover"}],"writtenby":[{"value":16,"label":"Penelope Ward"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/PWToetheLineBookCover5x8_MEDIUM-636x1024.jpg",636,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/852"}],"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\/853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}