After Blue Hour

Rowan Hale didn't move to town to fall in love.

She moved to disappear.

After leaving behind a controlling home, a relationship that made her feel small, and a college degree she couldn't finish, Rowan starts over in a new town with only one steady thing in her life - her best friend and roommate, Mateo.

Then she gets a job at Blue Hour Grill.

The restaurant is loud, chaotic, and full of personalities bigger than she feels most days - especially Jax Moreno. Six-foot-something, sharp-smiled, and impossible to ignore, Jax carries herself like she's unbreakable. She teases Rowan. Reaches things Rowan can't. Looks at her like she sees more than she should.

But Jax has her own past - and a habit of keeping people at arm's length.

As Rowan slowly learns to take up space instead of shrinking, old wounds resurface, forcing her to decide who she wants to be - and who she's brave enough to choose.

Because sometimes healing doesn't happen in grand gestures.

Sometimes it happens after closing time.