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Six Missed Calls: A Grovel Romance

Six Missed Calls: A Grovel Romance

Langer, Dixie

Paperback

Series: What He Owned Her - Marriage in Crisis, Book 1

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798176377019
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 22 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
He was seated beside another woman when her father died. She called him six times. He didn't answer once.

Becky Flint spent four years being tolerated by the Flint name - the wrong background, the wrong schooling, the wife her husband's family never quite approved of. On the worst night of her life, she needed Duncan for eleven minutes. He gave the eleven minutes to his mother instead.

Nine days later, Becky is gone. She takes her father's watch, a box of drawings she hasn't touched since before the wedding, and - because someone has to be petty about it - the good coffee grinder. She leaves her rings in the dish where he leaves his keys. She doesn't tell him where she's going. She doesn't tell him she's pregnant.

In a hardware-store apartment three hours north, Becky starts over. She measures other people's houses for a living now - the architecture career she gave up for him, reclaimed one cottage at a time. She is broke, tired, and better than she has been in years. And when Duncan finally finds her, standing on a ladder with a tape measure in her hand, she doesn't come down. He doesn't ask her to.

Duncan Flint has never had to earn anything in his life. Now he's losing a board seat, his mother's approval, and the only woman who ever told him the truth - and the only way to get her back is to prove it, not say it. No speech. No scene. No audience. Just something costly, private, and done without a single word to her about it - because for once, this isn't about being forgiven. It's about paying a debt he let someone else die still owing. She doesn't hear about it from him. She never does.

When he finally shows up with nothing left to offer but himself, Becky sets the terms - plainly, numbered, out loud. He doesn't negotiate. He doesn't thank her. He just says one of them is going to be hard, and he'll do it anyway. --- Six Missed Calls is Book 1 in the What He Owed Her series - standalone, addictive, and built for readers who want their grovel earned, not announced. If you've ever wanted to watch a man lose everything he thought mattered so he can finally understand what did, this one's for you.

  • Grovel romance - he doesn't talk his way back in, he works his way back in
  • Secret pregnancy
  • Marriage-in-crisis / second-chance structure
  • Slow-burn earning, not a grand gesture - the real one, no one's watching
  • Small-town reinvention arc she doesn't need him to survive
  • No cheating. No love triangle. No third-act miscommunication.
  • HEA guaranteed - every book in this series ends with them together
  • Six Missed Calls is a full-length, emotionally intense grovel romance with one steamy scene. Content note: on-page grief (parent's death), pregnancy, and a marriage-in-crisis storyline involving emotional (not physical) betrayal.

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