Isabel meets Derek at exactly the wrong time... or is it exactly right?
Can Isabel return this year for a refund? Because it sucks. Her editing business would be paying her bills just fine. if her ex-boyfriend wasn't blackmailing her. Of course, if her conservative family wouldn't disown her for being bisexual, her ex couldn't blackmail her in the first place. Sadly, she hasn't invented time travel to un-make the mistake that created this mess.
Derek has a good life. Mostly. He's an out bisexual man with a successful business and a loving queer found family. But he's almost forty, living alone is getting stale, and yet dating seems pointless since nobody's ever found him exciting enough to build a life with. Given he's now doing zero-creativity craft kits to pass the time, he suspects they're right. Maybe he should get a dog.
Isabel isn't holding auditions for a rescuer, and she wouldn't have expected Derek, a gorgeous, gentle man with his own history of family rejection, to fill the role. But Derek's "boring" life is the calm harbor Isabel needs, and her affection helps Derek see himself in a new light. Their tentative connection might become the happily ever after they both deserve-if they can hold onto it through the fallout from Isabel's recent romantic disaster.
A high heat contemporary queer F/M romance novel with a guaranteed HEA. Detailed content warnings are available in the book's front matter and on the author's website for those who need them.