Penelope Ward has just revealed the gorgeous cover for The Challenge
Release Date: August 30, 2026
Cover Design by: Letitia Hasser, RBA Designs
Cover Photography by: Robert Dahey Photography
Cover Model: Beau Carrillo
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward comes a new, STANDALONE contemporary romance…
About The Challenge
Nothing says welcome home like accidentally moving in with your first heartbreak…and his little girl.
Coming back to my small Wyoming hometown was supposed to be temporary. I only planned to stay long enough to help my ailing mother and sort through the mess of my family’s old belongings.
Instead, I somehow ended up living in Evan Ricci’s house. The single dad now owned a bunch of properties and one of them was the place I had rented. He had taken it off the market and moved in before I got there. I just never got the memo. Unfortunately, there was no other place in town available, so Evan let me stay.
Evan—the guy my parents took in years ago after his mother died.
The same Evan who used to dare me into ridiculous challenges that somehow always made me stronger—a game we had dubbed The Challenge.
The same guy who ultimately rejected me before I left for college after I had finally garnered the courage to shoot my shot.
Now Evan was a rugged single dad with an eight-year-old daughter, a cocky attitude, and a dangerous ability to make me forget every reason I should still hate him.
Sharing a house with him should have been unbearable. Instead, it felt dangerously familiar, nearly making me forget that I had a life and a job to get back to in Chicago. I realized the biggest challenge was not surviving living with Evan Ricci.
It was not falling in love with him all over again.
Availability
The Challenge is currently available for preorder in eBook format on Amazon.
The Challenge will be available to read for FREE in Kindle Unlimited upon release.
About Penelope Ward
Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of contemporary romance.
She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor. Penelope resides in Rhode Island with her husband, son, and beautiful daughter with autism.
With millions of books sold, she is a 21 time New York Times bestseller and the author of over thirty novels. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages and can be found in bookstores around the world.
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