I can rebuild an engine in the dark. I can find a stud in a wall with my knuckles. I've never once been wrong about a wall.
There's exactly one thing I can't do, and I've spent twenty-five years making sure nobody ever finds out.
Then a woman wedges a seventeen-foot truck across the square and opens a bookshop in a town with nine streets.
She's prickly. She's precise. She's funnier than she lets on, and she looks at me like I'm a puzzle she's already halfway through.
So I do what I've always done. I smile. I make the joke. I come in every single day and ask her to tell me about a book instead of reading it.
It works for eleven weeks.
Then she goes quiet in the middle of my shop, and I watch her lay it all out like pieces on a rag, and I know she's got me.
I've been carrying this my whole life.
Now she wants me to set it down — in front of her, in a room, out loud.
How do you let someone see the one thing you built your entire life to hide?
Grumpy-sunshine, inverted. Small town, nine streets. Slow burn to scorching. Found family. Age-appropriate, no cheating, no cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Thriller
There's exactly one thing I can't do, and I've spent twenty-five years making sure nobody ever finds out.
Then a woman wedges a seventeen-foot truck across the square and opens a bookshop in a town with nine streets.
She's prickly. She's precise. She's funnier than she lets on, and she looks at me like I'm a puzzle she's already halfway through.
So I do what I've always done. I smile. I make the joke. I come in every single day and ask her to tell me about a book instead of reading it.
It works for eleven weeks.
Then she goes quiet in the middle of my shop, and I watch her lay it all out like pieces on a rag, and I know she's got me.
I've been carrying this my whole life.
Now she wants me to set it down — in front of her, in a room, out loud.
How do you let someone see the one thing you built your entire life to hide?
Grumpy-sunshine, inverted. Small town, nine streets. Slow burn to scorching. Found family. Age-appropriate, no cheating, no cliffhanger. Guaranteed HEA.
Genre: Thriller
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