Best Friend’s Daddy by Naomi Niles

Harrison has been a single dad ever since his daughter, Sarah, was just a year old. But now she is about to graduate from college. Knowing her crazy years are about to be left behind her, she decides to attend one last frat party, but while there, she makes the devastating decision to drink and drive, ending her life. For Harrison, this is devastating, as one would imagine. Not only has he lost the only family he has, but he feels like it is his fault for having been too permissive of a parent.

And Caroline, her best friend, is left with some survivor’s guilt of her own, having declined Sarah’s invitation to the party.Having grown up with Sarah, she knew her father, but it has been years since the two of them have seen each other. And now, with Caroline all grown up and the two of them sharing their grief, there seems to be a magnetism between them.But can love arise out of such a situation? Or are they really just two people working out their grief together?