Secret Admirer

SECRET ADMIRER

A Cozy Small-Town Bookshop Romance

Standalone • Dual POV • HEA

Someone has been leaving love letters in her bookshop. She has no idea it’s the grumpy carpenter next door.

Eloise Whitfield has poured every last penny—and every ounce of optimism she has left—into opening Chapters & Co., a tiny secondhand bookshop on the high street of Ashworth, a picture-postcard village in the Cotswolds. The shop is her fresh start after a catastrophic engagement implosion, a career she hated, and an ex who told her she was “too much and not enough at the same time.” She’s not looking for love. She’s looking for solvency.

Callum Harding is the last person anyone in Ashworth would describe as romantic. The village’s resident carpenter and restorer, he communicates mainly in grunts, builds beautiful things with his hands, and hasn’t smiled in public since his wife left three years ago. He takes his coffee black, his silence seriously, and his dog, Brontë, everywhere. He is also, unfortunately, hopelessly in love with the chaotic redhead who moved in next door to his workshop—and he has absolutely no idea what to do about it.

So he writes her a letter. Anonymous. Tucked between the pages of a book she’d mentioned wanting to read. Just a few honest lines about the way the autumn light catches in her hair when she’s shelving books. He doesn’t sign it. He doesn’t plan to send another. But then she finds it—and the look on her face undoes something in him that he can’t put back.

One letter becomes two. Two becomes a dozen. The anonymous notes become the highlight of Eloise’s week—funny, tender, and so specific that she starts looking at every man in the village differently. Meanwhile, Callum is running out of ways to be near her without giving himself away, especially when the autumn festival committee throws them together and the whole village starts speculating about the mystery admirer.

What happens when the last letter is the one with his name on it?

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