Standalones

📖 academic rivals to friends to lovers

🌱 dual timelines

📖 twists on romance tropes

🌱 a magical, meddling bookstore

📖 no third act breakup

Content Warnings:

mentions and depictions of domestic violence, family problems, and depression

about…

Twenty-five year-old Elsie Morley is no stranger to handling problems on her own. So when she makes a heartfelt plea in the silence of her bookstore, she never expects an answer. 

She certainly doesn’t expect that answer to be sending her and her longtime rival, Jacob Lee, into a series of romance books, forcing them to work together to figure out how to get home. 

Dancing at a ball in Victorian London, riding horses in the Scottish Highlands, even fake dating to get rid of a nagging ex, they’re thrust into these worlds and given the task of finishing the stories. 

But already at a turbulent time in her life, she hardly knows what she’s doing in her real life, let alone in a make-believe one. 

And now with her place of employment playing matchmaker, Elsie’s forced to confront a lot of things, past and present, and reckon with the fact that she and Jacob will never get along. Right?