The Librarian Who Quit Love Stories

Nina Amore would rather stay buried in the stacks than risk another first date.

Too many jilted evenings, and too many love stories read day and night, have soured her on happy endings.

The men in those books never measure up to real life, so she is done with both: no new romance, and no more romance novels.

Her best friend talks her into Magnolia Point and the job of town librarian anyway.

Shelving books is the simple part. A Romance Readers Book Club is waiting for her to lead it, and in a town that loves love there is no hiding in the back row.

The work asks her to care about reading again, and to leave room for the possibility that love might find her whether she wants it or not.

Jay Parker grew up there and started his own HVAC company straight out of high school.

He is the man everyone calls when something needs fixing, and the last man anyone asks on a date.

Only his two closest friends know he reads romance in secret, the sweet stories and the spicy ones, and they blame those books for the way women decide he is too nice and too soft.

They have no idea what he keeps beneath that sweetness, or what the right woman could draw out of him.

The new librarian is about to meet the town's favorite sweetheart over a romance they write together, and the passion they find in it will not stay on the page.