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Between the Lines
Paperback
Series: Great Missenden Ever After, Book 1
Publisher: Tracey Magruder
Published: Feb 6 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Winner - 2026 International Book Awards (Romance)
Winner - Firebird Book Award (Romance)
Low spice. High emotional payoff.
Some stories don't just change your life.
They help you rebuild it.
After ten years in a toxic relationship, Sadie Reed is done being anyone's cautionary tale. By day, she edits other people's stories-polishing their words and pushing their dreams forward-while quietly abandoning her own.
So when she's offered one impossible assignment-to fly to a quiet English village and convince reclusive bestselling author Corbyn Pearce to finish the novel he's been avoiding-she says yes.
Corbyn is brilliant.
Corbyn is infuriating.
Corbyn is absolutely not interested in being handled.
Scarred by a tragic accident and locked behind walls he refuses to lower, he has driven away every editor sent his way-until Sadie.
Their clash is immediate. Sharp wit turns into creative friction. Creative friction turns into something neither of them is prepared for. And when a long-buried truth ties them to a single, unforgettable moment from their past, Sadie begins to wonder whether this assignment was coincidence... or something far less random.
As late-night conversations soften professional boundaries and tentative trust begins to form, old wounds resurface-hers from the man she escaped, his from the betrayal he never recovered from.
Now Sadie must decide:
Is she brave enough to rewrite her story?
And will Corbyn choose to be part of it?
Between the Lines is a heartfelt, slow-burn romance about healing, found family, emotional safety, and the quiet ways fate nudges us toward the people we're meant to find-where love doesn't erase the past, but grows patiently beside it.
Reader note: This is a low-spice adult romance with one mild open-door scene and occasional adult language.
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