The Lantern

Sienna has always been the girl men overlook.

She's quiet, awkward around flirting, and far more comfortable hiding behind her camera than fighting for attention in a crowded room.

Moving to Charleston with her best friends is supposed to be a fresh start after a breakup with the only man who has ever payed her any attention at all left her confidence somewhere near rock bottom.

Then she gets a job at The Lantern.

Working for Jace Walker is to be honest not a walk in the park. He's ridiculously charming, owns one of Charleston's hottest live music bars, and somehow makes everyone around him feel important.

Including her.

Not her louder friends. Not the polished Charleston girls who make perfect sense beside him.
Her.

Jace has spent years avoiding the expectation for his future. What he was supposed to do with his life, who he should date and who he should end up with.

Then Sienna walks into his bar wearing oversized sweaters and looking at the world like she sees things nobody else does.

She doesn't flirt with him. Doesn't care about his reputation.
And somehow makes him want want the attention he usually avoids.

What starts as late nights at the bar and a building friendship, slowly turns into something neither of them is prepared for.

Because the more time Jace spends with Sienna, the more impossible it becomes to imagine not noticing her.

Now he just has to convince the quiet girl who's spent her entire life feeling invisible that he sees her for everything she is and more.

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