Title: Matched with the Enemy
Author: Macie St James
Date: 2023
Quote: "I heard...Your store is shutting down. It's being taken over by some big shot."
Brianna's bookstore lasted seven and a half years, a long time in her small town in the Smoky Mountains, but she's closing it down at last. Someone else is paying more for the lease. In theory that would be an enemy, but Brianna has already resigned herself to closing her doors.
When she meets the new lessor, he's not only an enemy but an old school friend. The only sore point in their past was that they stayed in the friend zone back in high school, when both of them secretly wanted to be a couple.
It's a sweet romance. With, or in spite of, a little nudging from three older women who insist on keeping a book club going, although they're the only members and the books they pick are romance novels, Brianna and Matt soon become so close that they can confide to each other that both of them are secretly rich as well as cute, single, and successful. And delightfully secretive, a quality that's not sufficiently appreciated these days.
(Cute? Well...by this time one is inside the story and can forget the cover illustration. It's not the author's fault if the jacket illustrator couldn't draw nice-looking faces.)
There is no real suspense in a romance any more, but you may enjoy trying to guess what they'll end up doing with the building.
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