His notebook is full of love. That's precisely why it can destroy them.
Last winter, a sentient house and a haunted word processor taught Barry how to stop being invisible and how to hold twelve impossible women together. This spring, the entire campus is going to put that love on trial.
Because ten years ago, another houseboy kept secret records on his sorority. He scored the women like a game. When it came out, the Greek system purged every houseboy on campus, and the warmest house on the row went cold for a decade.
Barry keeps records too. The House System calls them Heart Sheets: every kindness owed, every quiet hurt noticed, every girl seen. On paper, they look identical to the ledger that started the purge. And someone just handed them to a tribunal.
Now the boy whose only superpower was disappearing has to do the one thing he's never survived: stand up in the open, in front of everyone, and prove the difference between scoring a person and loving one. His only witness is the rival who spent last winter trying to burn the house down, and this spring can't stop showing up at its kitchen table.
Cozy, warm, and no harem drama. But this time, the house can lose everything, and the only way to win is to be seen.
Genre: Thriller
Last winter, a sentient house and a haunted word processor taught Barry how to stop being invisible and how to hold twelve impossible women together. This spring, the entire campus is going to put that love on trial.
Because ten years ago, another houseboy kept secret records on his sorority. He scored the women like a game. When it came out, the Greek system purged every houseboy on campus, and the warmest house on the row went cold for a decade.
Barry keeps records too. The House System calls them Heart Sheets: every kindness owed, every quiet hurt noticed, every girl seen. On paper, they look identical to the ledger that started the purge. And someone just handed them to a tribunal.
Now the boy whose only superpower was disappearing has to do the one thing he's never survived: stand up in the open, in front of everyone, and prove the difference between scoring a person and loving one. His only witness is the rival who spent last winter trying to burn the house down, and this spring can't stop showing up at its kitchen table.
Cozy, warm, and no harem drama. But this time, the house can lose everything, and the only way to win is to be seen.
Genre: Thriller
Used availability for C L Dempsey's Man of the House 2