Ninety days. That's how long I have before I lose my grandmother's bakery.
I've got a burnt tray of conchas, eleven thousand dollars of debt, and a plan that mostly involves being nice to people until the math changes.
The math is not changing.
Then there's him. Seven-ten every morning. Never says a word — just points at what he wants, leaves exact change, and walks back out into the dark.
The whole town knows what he is. The club sends him when talking stops working, and his knuckles usually say more than his mouth does.
But someone's been fixing my back step at midnight. Someone rehung my screen door. Someone lit the alley I've been afraid to walk down since the funeral.
He's carrying flour sacks at four a.m. now. He's laughing again — barely, once, like it hurt.
And I'm falling for a man who thinks he's a weapon instead of a person.
I have thirty days left and one question I've never once in my life been brave enough to ask.
What happens when I ask him?
Steamy slow burn. Curvy baker heroine. Grumpy silent enforcer. Age gap. Small town. Forced proximity. Found family. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger.
Genre: Romance
I've got a burnt tray of conchas, eleven thousand dollars of debt, and a plan that mostly involves being nice to people until the math changes.
The math is not changing.
Then there's him. Seven-ten every morning. Never says a word — just points at what he wants, leaves exact change, and walks back out into the dark.
The whole town knows what he is. The club sends him when talking stops working, and his knuckles usually say more than his mouth does.
But someone's been fixing my back step at midnight. Someone rehung my screen door. Someone lit the alley I've been afraid to walk down since the funeral.
He's carrying flour sacks at four a.m. now. He's laughing again — barely, once, like it hurt.
And I'm falling for a man who thinks he's a weapon instead of a person.
I have thirty days left and one question I've never once in my life been brave enough to ask.
What happens when I ask him?
Steamy slow burn. Curvy baker heroine. Grumpy silent enforcer. Age gap. Small town. Forced proximity. Found family. Guaranteed HEA, no cheating, no cliffhanger.
Genre: Romance