She has spent her life controlling access.
He has spent his time hiding the truth.
Slone Rhodes has never believed that love makes people stay. She believes in distance, in timing, in keeping the parts of herself that matter most carefully out of reach. It is how she has survived loss, and it is how she plans to keep surviving it. Moving back to Atlanta feels manageable until she makes one mistake she has spent years avoiding. One reckless night with Connor Westbrook.
Connor has always been easy to love and impossible to hold onto. A firefighter with effortless charm, he keeps things light, never lingering where feelings might take root. To Slone, he has always felt familiar and safely out of reach. What she doesn’t know is that his distance is not indifference, but fear shaped by a past he has never shared.
What begins as something casual shifts the moment Slone allows herself to be seen. For the first time since her father’s death, she risks honesty and discovers that vulnerability changes her in ways she didn’t anticipate. When Connor pulls away, she is left to face the conclusion she has spent years avoiding: that opening her heart only invites abandonment.
When the truth about Connor’s disappearance comes to light, Slone is forced to determine whether love is something to manage and protect against, or something to choose fully, with all its risk.
Against the Odds is a deeply emotional romance about what it means to choose love when there are no guarantees.
Tropes Included:
Dual Pov
Friends with Benefits
Caretaking
Love Letters
Begging her not to marry another man
Pouring rain love confession
Secret illness
Genre: Romance
He has spent his time hiding the truth.
Slone Rhodes has never believed that love makes people stay. She believes in distance, in timing, in keeping the parts of herself that matter most carefully out of reach. It is how she has survived loss, and it is how she plans to keep surviving it. Moving back to Atlanta feels manageable until she makes one mistake she has spent years avoiding. One reckless night with Connor Westbrook.
Connor has always been easy to love and impossible to hold onto. A firefighter with effortless charm, he keeps things light, never lingering where feelings might take root. To Slone, he has always felt familiar and safely out of reach. What she doesn’t know is that his distance is not indifference, but fear shaped by a past he has never shared.
What begins as something casual shifts the moment Slone allows herself to be seen. For the first time since her father’s death, she risks honesty and discovers that vulnerability changes her in ways she didn’t anticipate. When Connor pulls away, she is left to face the conclusion she has spent years avoiding: that opening her heart only invites abandonment.
When the truth about Connor’s disappearance comes to light, Slone is forced to determine whether love is something to manage and protect against, or something to choose fully, with all its risk.
Against the Odds is a deeply emotional romance about what it means to choose love when there are no guarantees.
Tropes Included:
Dual Pov
Friends with Benefits
Caretaking
Love Letters
Begging her not to marry another man
Pouring rain love confession
Secret illness
Genre: Romance
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