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📖 Paperback Edition — He sells romance for a living. He hasn’t had any in three years.

Eli Mercer knows exactly what readers want. He can match a stranger to her perfect book in thirty seconds, discuss the merits of a slow burn without blushing, and tell every customer at Bramble & Binding that the thing they want is allowed. He eats dinner standing at the sink. He hasn’t been touched in three years. And he has never once asked anybody for anything.

Graham Calder has spent twenty months finding excuses to carry furniture twelve steps down Main Street. When Eli finally hires him to turn the cluttered back room into a reading room, Graham gets something better than an excuse: evenings alone in the shop after closing. And a box marked PERSONAL — DO NOT SHELVE, full of Eli’s favorite romances, every page he loved most tabbed and marked in his own neat handwriting.

yes.
someday.
please.

Graham could pretend he never saw it. He’d rather tell Eli the truth, and then learn, one page at a time, how to give him every single thing he wrote down.

But Graham has always been better at the start of things than the part after. He rents month to month. He says soon. And when an offer arrives that could take him three hundred miles from Bramble Cove, the man who never asks for anything will have to find out what he’s willing to say out loud.

He’s done every page Eli marked.

Now he wants the things Eli never wrote down.

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ Inferno • MM Small-Town Age-Gap Romance by Ames Willow • Bramble Cove, Book 1

Tropes: Age Gap (13 years) • Silver Fox • Small Town • Bookshop Romance • Neighbors Who Share a Wall • Renovation Romance • Annotated Margins • He Falls First • Praise Kink • Wrist Pinning • Edging & Begging • Reading Aloud • Versatile Switching • Touch Starved • Mutual Pining • Found Family • Proposal Epilogue

Paperback details: 6 × 9 in • cream paper • matte cover. Includes a link to the exclusive bonus chapter.

⚠️ Content Warning: This novel contains explicit sexual content (graphic MM scenes, including oral sex, rimming, manual sex, edging and orgasm delay, wrist pinning and light restraint, praise kink, reading aloud during sex, phone sex with a toy, sex in a shower, on a kitchen counter, in a reading chair, in a window seat and on a dining table, both partners topping and bottoming, condom use and a later on-page testing conversation before going bare; all sex is consensual), a thirteen-year age gap between adults, a past breakup and abandonment fears, a discovered private journal-style annotation and the repair of that breach of privacy, a family business offer that threatens the relationship, an emotionally painful argument and short separation, a past workplace injury from burnout, and strong language. No cheating, no third parties, no sexual violence. Intended for readers 18+.

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