Bookish Meets Boy

2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards 2nd Place, Women's Fiction 2016 Eric Hoffer Book Award Honorable Mention, Commercial Fiction Six months after being dumped by the love of her life, Sophie Childers just wants to go back to her old life. She was happy spending her days at her grandfather's shop, Bookish, and her nights curled up with her cats and a good book. But once Reese Fuller stumbles into her life-or she tumbles into his-she is suddenly caught up in the social life, brunching with the Downtown Divas (the boss girls she never considered friendship material before), playing matchmaker to nerds, starting up The Great Antiques War of Historic Downtown Strawbridge and worse, desperately trying to find homes for her darling colony of stray cats before Reese chases them off with his new-store renovations. Can a cross-genre kind of girl really let herself fall for a cat-hating thriller reader?