First published 2021
Avery Spark has built something real. She and her two younger sisters run Spark House, a hotel and event venue in Colorado Springs that went from family dream to the top destination in the region. Her condo, her friendships, her work, all of it fits. The one thing missing is a romantic relationship, and Avery has made peace with that. Then a car accident sidelines her completely. Declan, her best friend and roommate, refuses to let anyone else step in. He takes over her care, and suddenly the two of them are together in close quarters with nowhere to hide. They have history. Back in college, something pulled between them, but Avery started dating Declan's best friend Sam, and both of them buried whatever that feeling was. Now it resurfaces, slow and undeniable. Late nights and small acts of care start to shift into something neither of them planned. Avery begins asking a question she has avoided for years: what if she had chosen Declan instead? Getting closer feels good, then it feels necessary. But the longer things stay serious, the more their shared past presses back. Sam is not just a memory. He is a thread connecting them both, and pulling on it could unravel everything they have.
Genres: romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, heartfelt, intimate, slow-burn, tension-filled
Tropes: forced-proximity, friends-to-lovers, second-chance-romance, unresolved-feelings
Setting: Colorado Springs, Spark House
320 pages · Paperback · St. Martin's Griffin
Content warnings: death