The Situationship

by Abby Jimenez

Genres: Short Stories; Contemporary Romance

Synopsis

Find out how Maddy and Doug met in this sweet and hilarious short story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Just for the Summer.

Travel nurse Maddy doesn't have time for a relationship, not even with the ruggedly handsome farmer who she feels a spark of attraction to.

Doug is a walking green flag. After a run in with Maddy thanks to the Wakan town mascot, Kevin Bacon the pig, he can't help but feel the spark too.

Even though she doesn't plan on staying in Minnesota forever, Maddy believes she and Doug can still have a fling… or maybe they’ll just find themselves in a situationship. 

“The Situationship”was originally published as a bonus chapter in the Target exclusive edition of Just for the Summer. This ebook original also includes a first look at Abby’s new release, Say You’ll Remember Me.

Release date: September 24, 2024

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Print pages: 96

Sample

I walked along the bike trail, looking at the autumn leaves, and zipped my jacket to the top. It was already in the thirties and only mid-October in Wakan.

I couldn’t believe I was going to be living in Minnesota for the winter. My best friend Emma had told me we’d be here just for the summer, but now everything was all pumpkin patches and hay bales.

This place felt like the blueprint for Main Street at Disneyland. Caramel apples in the window of the fudge shop and mums in the hanging baskets off the light posts.

It was cute I guess, but kinda boring after a few weeks of staying with Emma’s brother, Daniel, and his wife, Alexis, in their big mansion by the river. Daniel said everything sort of shuts down after the summer. Half the restaurants had already closed for the season. There was nothing to do, and I was starting to get cabin fever. I wasn’t working right now, which I hated, but I was also afraid to get a job.

Alexis was the town doctor. She had a clinic by the pharmacy and she said she needed a full-time nurse. She could split the position into two and give me and Emma part-time hours if we both wanted to work. But Emma wasn’t ready. She was still withdrawn and crying most days so there was no way I was leaving her, not while she was in this state.

My. . .