Successful graphic designer, Seth Hollis, is perpetually unlucky in love. Rather than dwell on his lack of a love life, Seth focuses on his 7-year-old foster son, Jeremy. A miscommunication between Jeremy’s caseworker and Seth’s best friend Ashley has the caseworker believing that Seth and Ashley are about to be married. What the caseworker doesn’t know is that Ashley is engaged to another man. Ethan Alonso, an up-and-coming restauranteur, has just adopted a 1-year-old rescue he names Eli. The energetic puppy virtually turns Ethan’s routine day to day upside down. Ethan and Seth unknowingly cross paths several times until fate steps in and finally brings them together. Thanks to the caseworker’s snooping, their road to happily-ever-after is a bumpy one. The truth comes crashing down, quite literally, during Ashley and her fiancé’s engagement party. Family isn’t always the unit you’re born into, but the one you’re lucky enough to create.

Original source: https://literarytitan.com/2024/04/27/love-like-this-by-eric-ayala/