The Cracks We Mend

<p>Elara Myles has made a living out of repairing what others break. Corporate implosions failing brands messy bar tabs: she fixes them all with ruthless efficiency and never exhibits the broken pieces. But when Elara is dispatched to turn around a struggling bookshop in London she clashes with dust regret and a willful heir who would rather lose everything than let her minimize his father's legacy into bar charts and numbers.</p><p>Thomas Pemberton grew up inside the aisles of his family's beloved shop. Since his father's passing he is nothing short of grasping at air. So when Elara walks in with her sharp heels and intentionally pedatic resolve he feels the last nail has been released. She wants audits and marketing strategies he just wants silence memories and to mourn.</p><p>Neither expect the fragility of their truce or just how quickly it develops from truce into something far more dangerous: slow burn trust attraction and possibly even love. But in the end saving the shop is about more than overdue bills and falling shelves. It's about confronting broken hearts hidden grief and what's worth redeeming - and what isn't.</p><p>Poingnant romantic and achingly human The Cracks We Mend is a story of second acts the beauty of imperfection and the gold that glints the brightest through the cracks.</p>