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Nothing Important, Everything Important
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Midnight Haven Books
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Claire isn't looking for a new beginning. She's trying to get through another ordinary evening when a stranger sends her a text: I'm outside. I brought the dog because you said you were sad.
The message wasn't meant for her. But when she points out the mistake, he asks whether she's sad anyway. For once, Claire tells the truth.
Ben is a Puerto Rican architect with a golden retriever named Murphy and a habit of making himself useful. What starts with a dog photograph becomes a conversation Claire wants to keep having. Soon, the woman who spends her days keeping everyone else on schedule is checking her phone for reasons that have nothing to do with work.
Talking is easy when there's time to consider every reply. Making room for each other in person means admitting what they want-and learning when helping means listening. Claire has become very good at managing on her own. Asking Ben to stay will take practice.
Nothing Important, Everything Important is a tender, quietly funny contemporary interracial romance about the growing importance of someone who wants to hear about your day.
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