Single Dad's Mistake by Sam DestinyMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
Knox Dyer's teenage son Callum has been hanging with the wrong crowd in Atlanta and getting into trouble so Knox gives up his career as a lawyer and moves to a small town to start over, although not as a lawyer.
On the first day, moving in, he and Callum get into another verbal fight on the doorstep which is interrupted by a woman out jogging who is cute and toned and funny. When she brings over pizza later that night as a welcome to the neighbourhood Knox could be in love, only trouble is, so could Callum! When Callum challenges Knox and says Sarah is interested in him, makes it a competition, Knox knows he needs to push Sarah away to avoid any awkward declarations of love from Callum.
Sarah Burke is a cop, she takes a keen interest in her community but has been single ever since her daughter died. When her captain insists she hosts the annual Police ball she is determined not to be sat on the sad singles table AGAIN so she lies and says she's bringing a boyfriend, and who better than the sexy single dad who just moved in down the road, perhaps she can bribe him to be her fake boyfriend with pizza?
Knox is the first man Sarah has felt anything for, the first man that has interested her at all since her child died, but she can't tell whether he's acting interested because he's her fake boyfriend or whether he feels the same way she does. And then he suddenly pulls away and says she can't come round anymore?
Fun novella that felt like it could have been a full-length novel, I had lots of questions about why Knox would give up being a lawyer and become a removal guy? Surely being a lawyer is a pretty portable profession? And why move home without even looking for a new job? And I didn't really understand why Callum's crush had to be a secret or why that meant that Sarah shouldn't come over to the house.
But overall, if you fancy a hot single dad and a sassy cop novella then this is right up your street.
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