{"id":862,"date":"2023-07-14T12:24:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T12:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/?post_type=books&#038;p=862"},"modified":"2024-03-09T15:58:39","modified_gmt":"2024-03-09T15:58:39","slug":"i-could-never","status":"publish","type":"books","link":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/books\/i-could-never\/","title":{"rendered":"I Could Never"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NOW LIVE! <strong>From <em>New York Times <\/em>bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new forbidden, enemies-to-lovers story\u2026 <\/strong><br>It all started with an unexpected phone call.<br>Two years after my fianc\u00e9 passed away in an accident, his father died suddenly, leaving Brad\u2019s adult, special-needs brother with no one to care for him.<br>The next thing I knew, I was on a cross-country drive to New Hampshire where I\u2019d be moving in to look after Scottie until I could get him into a group home.<br>The last thing I ever expected?<br>I wouldn\u2019t be taking care of him alone.<br>Josh Mathers, my fianc\u00e9\u2019s best friend\u2014who also happened to be my sworn enemy\u2014insisted he was the better person for the job. He told me to go back to California, and I told him where he could stick that demand.<br>Our disdain for each other wasn\u2019t anything new. It dated back to a text I\u2019d accidentally read years ago.<br>We hated each other. But we both loved Scottie, so neither of us budged.<br>Now we were living together in a tiny house\u2014with one available bedroom. Thank goodness it was only temporary.<br>Over time, I realized the broody jerk I thought I knew was different than I\u2019d imagined.<br>I found myself slowly growing attached to someone I once considered the enemy\u2026and growing attracted to him.<br>Sure, both of us were guilt-ridden over Brad. We were also two grown people with pent-up frustration toward one another\u2014stuck in a cabin in the woods.<br>But this was <em>Josh<\/em>.<br><em>I could never.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":863,"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":[68],"writtenby":[16],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"series":[{"value":26,"label":"Standalones"}],"trope":[{"value":68,"label":"Enemies to Lovers"}],"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\/07\/PWICouldNeverBookCover5x8_MEDIUM-635x1024.jpg",635,1024,true],"author_info":[],"comment_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/862"}],"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\/863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"trope","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/trope?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/format?post=862"},{"taxonomy":"writtenby","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/penelopewardauthor.com\/clds-staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writtenby?post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}