She can feel the unfinished business between any two people. On the one man she can't stop wanting, her gift goes completely, humiliatingly silent.
Tamsin Bell finishes other people's sentences for a living. As Hazard & Heart's closure specialist, she can feel the unsaid thing between any two people — the swallowed apology, the unsent letter — like the pressure dropping before a storm. She ghostwrites the text you'll never send and stops you sending the one you shouldn't. She is a professional at endings.
She has just never once finished a sentence of her own.
Which becomes a problem the day Wesley Case walks back through the door.
Three years ago, Wesley left her cleanly, kindly, completely — a tidy exit with the real reason surgically removed. Now he's the Atlanta brand-crisis strategist flown in to engineer a very public reconciliation between Savannah's most-watched couple, live and on-brand and fully stage-managed. It's the marquee case that could save the firm's dented reputation. And Tamsin's been assigned to it. With him.
The second he steps into the intake room, her always-humming gift shuts off like someone unplugged it.
So now she has to fix a famous couple's love story while pretending she can read the private one standing right next to her — honest closure against managed narrative, two exes brokering someone else's happy ending while their own goes unspoken. And every honest beat of the case holds a mirror up to the exact conversation she's spent three years refusing to have.
She can give all of Savannah closure. She's just never booked her own session.
The Ex Effect is Book 3 in the Heartbreak & Other Hazards series — a witty, warm, scorching magical romcom about second chances, saying the hard thing out loud, and the wildly undignified courage it takes to finish your own sentence. Fully standalone.