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Romancing the Tome: A small town rom com
I own the bookshop. He owns the secret. The whole town owns binoculars.
Three years ago, I flee my own wedding, buy a failing bookshop in Everdale Falls with the honeymoon fund, and build a life alphabetized to perfection. My shop runs on strong tea, stronger opinions, and the bestselling romances of the famously reclusive Genevieve Everhart — an author I would happily marry sight unseen, if books could propose.
Then Everhart’s people sponsor the town’s first summer book festival, and they send a man to run it.
Grant Everett is grumpy, gorgeous, allergic to small talk, and suspiciously good at his job. He organizes my stockroom. He fixes my ladder. He learns the town’s casserole politics in a week. He is also carrying the biggest secret in there is no Genevieve. There’s only Grant, eleven bestsellers deep in a pen name he borrowed from his grandmother, sent to a town full of devoted readers to protect a lie with a marketing budget.
He can handle the festival. He can even handle the book club. What he can’t handle is me — the letters I’ve been writing to his alter ego for months, the way I talk about his books like they’re load-bearing, the fact that he’s falling for me twice under two names and only one of him is allowed to say so.
With a nosy newspaperman circling, a festival spotlight waiting, and an entire town placing bets, Grant is running out of pages. Because I’ve been left at the altar of a beautiful story before.
This time, I’d rather have the truth — footnotes and all.
Romancing the Tome is a steamy, laugh-out-loud small-town romance featuring a grumpy hero with a secret identity, a sunshine-adjacent heroine with a filing system for her feelings, one opinionated bookshop cat, open-door heat, zero cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book two of the Everdale Falls series — each book stands alone.
Three years ago, I flee my own wedding, buy a failing bookshop in Everdale Falls with the honeymoon fund, and build a life alphabetized to perfection. My shop runs on strong tea, stronger opinions, and the bestselling romances of the famously reclusive Genevieve Everhart — an author I would happily marry sight unseen, if books could propose.
Then Everhart’s people sponsor the town’s first summer book festival, and they send a man to run it.
Grant Everett is grumpy, gorgeous, allergic to small talk, and suspiciously good at his job. He organizes my stockroom. He fixes my ladder. He learns the town’s casserole politics in a week. He is also carrying the biggest secret in there is no Genevieve. There’s only Grant, eleven bestsellers deep in a pen name he borrowed from his grandmother, sent to a town full of devoted readers to protect a lie with a marketing budget.
He can handle the festival. He can even handle the book club. What he can’t handle is me — the letters I’ve been writing to his alter ego for months, the way I talk about his books like they’re load-bearing, the fact that he’s falling for me twice under two names and only one of him is allowed to say so.
With a nosy newspaperman circling, a festival spotlight waiting, and an entire town placing bets, Grant is running out of pages. Because I’ve been left at the altar of a beautiful story before.
This time, I’d rather have the truth — footnotes and all.
Romancing the Tome is a steamy, laugh-out-loud small-town romance featuring a grumpy hero with a secret identity, a sunshine-adjacent heroine with a filing system for her feelings, one opinionated bookshop cat, open-door heat, zero cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Book two of the Everdale Falls series — each book stands alone.
349 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 20, 2026
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