Sign-In
Cart
Midnight Knows Your Name
Paperback
Publisher: M.S. Shellback
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ight knows your name. When a single cryptic note appears in Lila's bookstore, it upends the careful life she's stitched from routine and quiet hope.
Lila runs a tiny bookshop by day and tucks herself into measured solitude by night. The note-tucked between dog-eared poetry-feels like a claim and a question all at once. It draws her toward the one place she thought safely shelved in the past: the lighthouse Jonah Voss returned to rebuild, and the man who once steadied ladders and unsettled her pulse. Jonah's arrival in town after years away ripples the harbor's calm, and with it comes the slow coil of recognition, regret, and heat neither of them expected.
As Lila follows the trail of penciled words and midnight footprints, the town's secrets begin to peel back-old debts, half-said apologies, a history of whispers that smell like salt and cedar. Jonah carries his own quiet: hands that know how to fix what's broken, and a past that taught him to keep distance. When their paths collide in the hush of late hours and in the charged silence between shelves, sparks flare into something deliberate and inevitable. Their attraction is a steadying force and a danger, a pressure that promises both safety and the risk of losing control.
Slow-burn longing deepens into emotional intimacy as the pair unravel why the note found Lila now. Loyalties are tested, choices from years ago resurface, and midnight's confessions force both to decide what they will protect-and what they are willing to surrender. In a town built on second chances, Lila must choose between the quiet life she's curated and a love that insists on being known by name.
Also from
Shellback, M. S.
Also in
Romance
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf (Mead Mishaps, Book 2)
Kimberly Lemming
Paperback
Sabine's Notebook: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Continues
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes
Bantock, Nick
Hardcover
The Auction (Deluxe Limited Edition): A Spicy, Dark Romance Novel from a Tiktok Sensation
Kincaid, Sadie
Hardcover