by Jen DeLuca
Part of Well Met
First published 2020
Stacey watches her friends Simon and Emily get engaged and realizes she needs to change her life. She has spent years caring for her sick mother in Willow Creek, working summers at the Renaissance Faire serving drinks and enjoying casual flings. Now she wants something real before Simon and Emily's wedding next summer at the Faire. Stacey never considered Dex MacLean from the band The Dueling Kilts as relationship material. Their physical chemistry works, but she feels no deeper bond with the quiet musician. Then Dex sends her a surprisingly heartfelt email. Over nine months, hundreds of messages flow between them, and Stacey discovers a tender, thoughtful man behind the words. When the Faire returns to Willow Creek, Stacey prepares to meet this new version of Dex. Instead, she learns the shocking truth: the man who wrote those letters is someone else entirely. The person she has fallen in love with is not the kilted performer she thought she knew.
Genres: fiction, romance, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, emotional, heartfelt, intimate, introspective, romantic
Tropes: emotional-connection, friends-to-lovers, mistaken-identity, second-chance-romance, slow-burn
Setting: Willow Creek, Renaissance Faire
313 pages · Paperback · Berkley