by Abby Jimenez
First published 2024
Holly is having a rough stretch. Her grandmother is dying, her last relationship ended badly, and Valentine's Day feels like salt in a wound. Then she finds a card tucked under her windshield wiper, a mistake clearly meant for someone else. She keeps it anyway. What follows is a back-and-forth of anonymous notes and small, thoughtful gestures between Holly and a stranger she has never seen. Each exchange pulls her a little further out of grief and disappointment. The stranger feels real in a way she did not expect. But Holly knows this cannot stay anonymous forever, and one of them is facing a goodbye that has nothing to do with romance. Abby Jimenez, the New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly, tells this Valentine's Day story as a short what-if about two people finding each other at exactly the wrong and right moment. The emotional weight is quiet but it lands. Holly has to decide whether a connection built on paper and kindness can survive the harder parts of real life.
Genres: fiction, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: bittersweet, emotional, hopeful, intimate, poignant, tender
Tropes: anonymous-romance, forced-proximity, second-chance-at-love, slow-burn
Period: Valentine's Day
60 pages · Kindle Edition · Amazon Original Stories
Content warnings: death, terminal-illness