The Last Chapter

by Anonymous

Elena Marsh has spent eight years making sensible choices — the corporate job, the city flat, the careful, managed life that doesn't leave room for getting hurt again. Then her grandmother Mae dies and leaves her Mae's Pages, a small and treasured and financially struggling bookshop in the Cornish village of Merrow Cove, and Elena takes a leave from everything sensible and goes home. She is going to save the shop. She has a plan. The plan does not account for James Calloway walking through the door with a briefcase and an apologetic expression and the specific quality of stillness she has spent eight years trying to forget. He is there to assess the property. The landlord is considering selling. Elena has weeks, not months. And the boy who taught her that practicality and love are not the same thing has grown up into a man who is about to prove it all over again.