Make a Wish

Harley Spark is twenty when she moves into a house thick with grief and lullabies. She takes care of baby Peyton and quietly carries the weight of a young widower’s long nights. One near-kiss changes everything—and in the fallout, Gavin Rhodes moves away with his daughter, leaving Harley with a broken heart and a long, hard look at herself.

Seven years later, Harley runs events at Spark House with her sisters and is comfortably, mostly, past that old ache—until Gavin and nine-year-old Peyton stroll back into her life at a kids’ birthday party. What follows is a slow, heart-squeezing reconnection: pizza dates, zoo mishaps, glitter crafts, a reopened wound or two, and real talk about grief. Harley and Gavin circle guilt, attraction, and responsibility. Peyton, wonderfully herself, wants magic, not rules. And Gavin’s mother-in-law—still raw from her own loss—casts a long shadow.

Make a Wish is a warm, modern second-chance romance about learning to choose the future without disrespecting the past. It’s about apologizing when you get it wrong, loving a kid exactly as she is, and staying when it matters. If you like your love stories grounded in real life—with cupcakes, craft glue, and therapy—this one’s for you.

• Listeners who love second-chance romances with real-life stakes
• Fans of found-family stories that include kids without feeling saccharine
• Anyone who wants grief handled with compassion and humor
• Readers who enjoy workplace sisterhood and smart female leads
• Rom-com fans who prefer warmth, growth, and a guaranteed HEA

Helena Hunting is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author known for heartfelt, witty romances that balance humor with genuine emotional stakes. She writes across rom-com, contemporary, and sports romance. When she isn’t crafting slow-burns and second chances, she’s baking, drinking coffee, and wrangling glitter.