The Last Watch
The quiet up here was the thing I kept waiting to get used to.
Stories in Romance tagged strangers, ranked by how many readers finish them. Reads run 24 to 26 minutes. Writers to know: Onyx Anchor, Thread of Tawny and Meridian Phantom. Readers usually start with “The Last Watch” and “The Night We Weren't Ourselves”. Some are free to read in full; the rest open with a free preview.
The quiet up here was the thing I kept waiting to get used to.
I drove up to Redwood National Park on a Friday afternoon in late August, twenty-four years old and tired in a way that sleep wasn't going…
People who come to my auctions think they know me, and honestly I work hard at making sure they do.
Friday is my favorite shift of the month, and I'll tell you why.
My cousin Sheena has been telling me for years that I'm set in my ways.
*This one came from the idea that not every romance is forever, and that's okay.
Elliot had worked the night shift on the bridge toll booth for five years now, and he had come to think of the city as a thing that…
So there I was, forty-two years old, six months out of a divorce that had cost me more sleep than money, standing in the lobby of Merrick…
Let me tell you something about me first.
It started with butter.
Melvin Crockett woke at four forty like he always did.