Layla Monroe can handle youth soccer chaos and a runaway ferret, but a Fall Fest with no ticket sales is a crisis she cannot fix alone.
Her last resort is Hayes Fielder, a grumpy NFL player who owes her friend a favor and is supposed to draw a crowd to Star Lake.
He arrives with his nine-year-old daughter, whose list includes a hike, a swim, and finding Dad a girlfriend, and Layla is somehow first in line.
Hayes came for pumpkins, not feelings, yet the festival weekend stretches into a week in Arizona of pool kisses, kitchen disasters, and a child who will not stop scheming.
A simple favor starts to look like a slow-burn single-dad romance he may not be ready to walk away from.
