The Quiet Type: A Small-Town Opposites-Attract Romance

He came to Cedar Ridge to disappear. She's spent her whole life making sure no one ever has to carry her. Neither one is built to be saved by the other - which is exactly what's about to happen.

Joss Beckett has run the Page & Pine bookstore since she was nineteen, and she's never once left the mountain town she was raised in. She tells everyone it's because she loves it. The truth is smaller and harder: wanting a bigger life would mean admitting that the brother who gave up everything to raise her did it for nothing. So she stays small, stays useful, and reads about the ocean she's never seen.

Theo Marchetti is a journalist who stopped. Eighteen months after losing his wife, he rents the room above Joss's store because it's far and quiet and far - and finds, to his horror, that it's none of those things, because the bookseller downstairs is the first person in a year and a half who makes him want to stay anywhere.

When a developer comes for the heart of Main Street, the two of them end up on the same side of a fight neither expected - a fight that forces Joss to want something out loud for the first time, and gives Theo a reason to come all the way back to life. But wanting is the dangerous part. And a man who's already lost everything, and a woman who's certain she was only ever a place people leave, will have to decide whether they're brave enough to be someone's first choice.

The Quiet Type is a tender, slow-burn, opposites-attract romance about grief, found family, and the radical act of wanting a whole life. Book Five in the Cedar Ridge series - an interconnected standalone with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.