Can't Help Falling

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Sometime all it takes to start a fire is a single match. . .</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Owen Larrabee is </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>not </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>my soulmate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He wasn't when I confessed my love to him on his wedding day and he isn't now. I should probably say that I wasn't the bride when that happened. I don't have the best timing.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's got a temper he's moody and he has a history of being misunderstood and making big mistakes. I on the other hand make pumpkin cupcakes spend my Friday nights curled up with a beloved romance novel and long to be kissed in the rain.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Owen is my best friend's older off-limits brother and the only boy I ever thought I loved. Which is laughable because he only ever saw me as his kid sister's dorky friend.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But that was a long time ago. And I'm over him.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Mostly.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until he comes back to Harvest Hollow like some kind of hero showing up just in time to pull me out of my burning house and make me feel all the things I told myself I'd never feel again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Darn him and that brooding intense way he looks at me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I have questions. Why is Owen back? And does he remember our secret friendship or the day I've spent the last eight years trying to forget?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I know better than to get hung up on Owen again. Especially now when he's sworn off relationships and thinks romance is a farce. And I'm something of an expert-at least to the people who listen to my podcast </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Hopeful Romantic</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never mind that nobody would guess their local bookshop owner is the one doling out popular weekly relationship advice.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Never mind that I'm basing all that advice on the hundreds (thousands?) of romance novels I've read over the years and not on personal experience.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And especially never mind that Owen is making me question everything I believe about all of it.</span></p><p></p>