Raised by her father in Silverpine, Oregon, after her mother moved halfway across the world, Dani\u2019s separation anxiety ran deep long before Parker ghosted her, so when she runs headfirst into him at a bar in New York City, she promptly runs out rather than reopen a door for the former best friend who\u2019d loved and abandoned her. She had been just \u201csix when\u2026Mom packed up her easel and art supplies and flew back to Taiwan.\u201d Losing Parker\u2014the friend with whom she\u2019d felt an \u201cimmediate spark\u2014a seamless connection between two seven-year-olds, as if they\u2019d known one another in a past life\u201d\u2014that might have been even harder. It made Dani harder too. Dani and Parker had been connected for 13 years, from elementary school through college on opposite coasts (Parker got a scholarship to play football at Oregon while Dani pursued her writing dreams at Columbia), until Parker\u2019s no-show on Christmas Eve opened a wound that wouldn\u2019t heal. But now, when Dani finds herself drawn to Parker against most of her instincts for self-preservation, she doesn\u2019t begin an extended game of cat-and-mouse. Parker may be a former star athlete turned sports-marketing wunderkind and Dani a nerdy writer who lives inside her head, but it\u2019s Dani who has the agency to grab Parker by the lapels and take what she\u2019s long wanted. And when they rekindle the friendship, this time with plenty of steam, it\u2019s drawn in artful detail, and both the chemistry and banter are fire.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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