The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor, #4)

by Laurie Gilmore

dads kept their shit together in times of crisis.

Was this why people wanted a partner? This feeling at the end of a rough day that they’d survived something together? She had to admit it was nice. She’d always had her mom and her aunt and her cousin. She collected friends like she collected new careers. But maybe having a partner would be different.

This day, this life, felt like a different type of achievement. The type that only required his presence not his perfection.