β Scribed by Alice Archer
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The truth is harder to hide when someone sharp starts poking around.
Grant Eastbrook hit the ground crawling after his wife kicked him out. Six months later, in Seattle without a job or a place to live, he escapes to the woods of nearby Vashon Island to consider his options. When heβs found sleeping outdoors by a cheerful man who seems bent on irritating him to death, Grantβs plans to resuscitate his life take a peculiar turn.
Oliver Rossi knows how to keep his fears at bay. Heβs had years of practice. As a local eccentric and artist, he works from his funky home in the deep woods, where he thinks he has everything he needs. Then he rescues an angry man from a rainy ditch and discovers a present worth fighting the past for.
Amid the buzz of high summer, unwelcome attraction blooms on a playing field of barbs, defenses, and secrets.
Standalone romance. HEA.
Fiction
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