by Sarah Adams
First published 2025
Emily Walker has her second-grade classroom exactly how she wants it. She writes romance novels in secret and keeps her carefully ordered world free from disruption. That world crracks when Jack Bennett returns to Rome, Kentucky. He left mid-year with his fiancée, but now he's back single and living next door. Jack renovates his house and writes mystery novels under a pen name. He finds Emily's attempts to sabotage his return more entertaining than annoying. Their feud reaches new heights when Emily accidentally sends an email to their principal that could expose her secret writing career. She needs to break into the school and steal back her manuscript. Jack is the only person who can help her pull off the theft. He agrees to the plan. Their partnership forces them to work together instead of against each other. The heist becomes something neither teacher expected.
Genres: fiction, romance, mystery, contemporary-romance
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Rome, Kentucky
Period: 21st-century
400 pages · Paperback · Dell