Rule One: Don’t Fall In Love With The Foster Brother
Seventeen-year-old Dali Perkins is too smart for her own good and far too sarcastic for anyone else’s comfort. But sarcasm is her armor, her default setting, ever since her world shattered at thirteen when her parents died in a horrific accident.
Taken in by their closest friends, the Simmons family, her godparents, Dali now lives in a lively, chaotic household that’s tried its best to soften her rough edges. Fiona and Dave, her foster parents, are warm and well-meaning. Their son Jayden is a goofball three years her junior. And then there’s Raven, the brooding eldest son who left abruptly to live with an uncle shortly after Dali moved in, convinced his presence only made things harder for her.
Now Raven’s back. He’s twenty-one, in college, and still quietly magnetic in all the worst ways.
Dali isn’t sure how to act around him—or how to suppress the feelings she’s harbored for years.
What follows is a short, heartfelt love story between the guarded girl who hides behind wit, and the older boy who left to protect her. With an unexpected dash of humor, miscommunication, and a charming side couple who steal scenes as much as hearts, this is a romance about awkward beginnings, second chances, and the fine line between familiar and something more.