Unexpectedly Bookish

<p>NOTE: Booksellers - this is the Dyslexia-Friendly Paperback Edition. For the regular edition please select the other Unexpectedly Bookish listing!</p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>REED</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After years in stifling corporate architecture </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Reed Berry</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is chasing his dream in Fairwick Falls: </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>opening a cozy bookstore.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>His plan? </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Design a bookstore that</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>sparks wonder</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> to honor his late grandfather.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The hitch? Pearl Bishop-his new assistant and the human embodiment of a Do Not Touch sign.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> She's all dark eyeliner piercings and attitude sharp enough to cut glass. His sunny can-do attitude has her threatening to throw him out the nearest window.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Good thing he has his </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>anonymous late-night confidant-<em>impossibly_bookish</em>-to escape to.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>His steamy secret online crush gets him in ways Pearl never would.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>PEARL</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Pearl Bishop is nobody's idea of a sweet small-town girl.</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> She's all death metal tattoos piercings and black lipstick-a girl who's perfected the art of keeping people at a distance.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Especially</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> good guys like Reed Berry.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>He's her </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>brother's best friend her new boss temporary roommate </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>and the poster boy for annoyingly cheerful. But the way he looks at her? Like she's the only woman who exists? </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>It's messing with her carefully crafted armor.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>But Pearl's got bigger problems like scraping together enough cash to you know live? </strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>And her ancient neighbor/mortal enemy who is hell-bent on stopping both the bookstore and Pearl's allergen-free bakery dreams with red tape.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The only person who sees past Pearl's sarcasm and ink-stained armor is her online confidant <em>hemingway_cansuckit</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-a guy she's been swapping filthy flirty messages with for months.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The man she's been falling for text by text.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The man she's agreed to <em>finally</em> meet in person.</strong></p>