Desire and the Deep Blue Sea (Love Unscripted)

Desire and the Deep Blue Sea (Love Unscripted)They're pretending. Until they aren't. Thomas McKinney has never wanted a woman the way he wants Callie Adesso. Since she started working alongside him at the Colonial Marysburg Research Library, he's spent his desk shifts fumbling pencils, tripping over his own feet, and struggling to remember both the Dewey Decimal System and the existence of her inconvenient boyfriend. Now, however, Callie is suddenly single and in need of a last minute faux

and eventually everyone leaves

That boy might’ve been her best friend

until he finds that inside her damaged shell

especially after she learns what lies behind the thick walls he’s built around his heart

when they’re put in charge by their parents of the orchard’s vital Harvest Festival

confining her strongest emotions to her secret poetry journal

Grace must face what she’s been running from all along—the fears that make us human

but a beautiful stranger who throws herself at him one night is too tempting to pass up

the harder it is to tell where the lies end and we begin

Nothing like what was meant to be a one-night stand turning into a full-time captive

I’m praying that she gives me a chance to help her save it

and for once