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For twenty years they've each believed the same heartbreaking lie-that the other only wanted friendship.
Renovating a haunted church is easier than admitting he's in love. Oberon "Obi" Lockhart has spent half his life chasing two impossible dreams: opening his own restaurant... and finding the courage to tell Jessie Harper she's always been the love of his life.
Restoring an abandoned church into the restaurant he's always imagined? No problem.
Risking the only friendship he's never been willing to lose?
Terrifying.
Jessie Harper has loved Obi since kindergarten. He was her first kiss. Her first proposal-at five years old, behind the jungle gym. She survived playground crushes, high school dances, college, and years of pretending friendship was enough because losing him would hurt far more than loving him in silence ever could.
Now she's finally home in Pinkerton Falls.
Armed with a new degree, searching for a job, and trying to rebuild her confidence after escaping a manipulative relationship, she's determined to start over.
She never expected the boy she'd loved forever to finally start looking at her the same way.
As lifelong friendship finally ignites into something impossible to ignore, Obi throws himself into renovating an abandoned church into the restaurant of his dreams. But mysterious late-night disturbances, anonymous threats, and a man unwilling to let Jessie build a new life threaten everything they've fought so hard to find.
Because some people mistake obsession for love.
And before opening day, Obi may lose both the restaurant he's spent years building... and the woman he's loved since they were kids.
LOVE DEAL is a spicy small-town romance featuring lifelong best friends to lovers, mutual pining, slow burn, found family, meddling matchmakers, comfort food, haunted church rumors, romantic suspense, and the sweetest happily-ever-after in Pinkerton Falls.
Some dreams are worth waiting for; sometimes the love of your life has been standing beside you since kindergarten.
A standalone novel in the Pink Matchmakers Universe.
TROPES: Best Friends to Lovers • Slow Burn • Mutual Pining • Protective Hero • Small Town Romance • Chef Hero • Therapist Heroine • Found Family • Haunted Church Mystery • Romantic Suspense • Spicy • HEA
