I loved my little book and coffee shop. I'd called it The Bookworms Haven, and it was more than just a shop. It was a meeting place for likeminded bookworms like me.
I hosted book clubs and new release events, and special daytime and after school get-togethers for the children in town. After all, they were the next generation of bookworms. My life was idyllic.
That was, until disaster struck and my world burned around me - quite literally. If it hadn't been for my best friend, James, I wouldn't be lying in the hospital now, alive.
Everything I had, all that I had built up, was gone. Like always, though, there was James to pick me up. My very own knight in shining armour, straight from a romance novel.
The Bookworms Haven will rise again from the ashes. But will it also bring my own happily ever after?
This was originally part of the Sugar & Spice 2025 Timeless Love Anthology.