Closing Time

A standalone romance following Skylar Adrian Lawrence, a coffee shop owner learning what comes after almost.

He lost her because he stayed silent.

He won't lose another.

Skylar Adrian Lawrence once let fear decide for him, and it cost him the woman he loved. By the time he understood what hesitation costs, she was walking down the aisle toward someone else.

On the day she married another man, Skylar made himself a promise: he would never again let silence speak louder than his heart.

Then Cassandra Emery Thorne walks into Brewster.

With her camera, her quiet poetry, and a refusal to be someone's almost, Cassandra doesn't ask for half-hearted. She doesn't want undefined. She doesn't stay where she isn't chosen.

And when friendship turns into something neither of them planned, Skylar finds himself standing at a familiar crossroads.

This time, the question isn't whether he feels it.

The question is whether he'll finally be brave enough to say it.