Ghost Shoes

What happens when you move to the Adirondacks with your five kids? Apparently you marry your neighbor.

Maybe not everyone does that, but not everyone has my overbearing mother, a case manager from the state on their back, and a house that everyone is convinced is haunted.

No one thinks I can make it living in a small town with my five foster kids but I intend to prove I am not a fish out of water in the mountains of New York.

The only easy part? Finn Lowery, my neighbor, is completely on board with this sham of a marriage and joining our chaos crew.

He’s showing up, carving pumpkins and dressing up for Halloween. It’s just a few weeks of sharing a bed and playing house until the state is off my back. But lines blur and I realize I might be falling for my fake husband. Now I’m not sure I’ll make it out of this arrangement with my heart intact.