PROOF OF US

She's spent nine years hiding who she loves. The last person she should want is the one who's about to change everything.

Reese Calloway built her bakery, and her whole careful life, so nobody could ever vote her out of either one. Long brown hair, an athlete's build, forearms that can heft a fifty-pound bag of flour without blinking. Nobody guesses she's gay until she tells them, and after the way her parents took it nine years ago, she doesn't tell many people at all.

Then Sadie Marsh walks in for her first shift with the streetlight behind her, and every careful rule Reese has ever made for herself starts quietly falling apart.

There's just one problem. Sadie's engaged. To a man. And Reese knows better than to want someone else's almost-wife.

But some feelings don't ask permission before they arrive. As the months pass in flour and stolen glances and a friendship that keeps catching fire, Reese and Sadie are forced to face the truth: the life Sadie's building isn't the one she actually wants, and the woman standing across the counter every morning might be the bravest thing either of them has ever reached for.

When grief, a dangerous ex, and two families who don't know how to say the right thing all collide in the same unforgettable year, Reese and Sadie will have to decide whether love is still worth building loudly, out loud, in the front window, where the whole town can see.

Get ready for:

• Small-town bakery setting
• Forbidden love / she's engaged to someone else
• Slow burn with high-tension dialogue
• Grief and healing woven through the romance
• A found-family ending
• Emotional, drama-heavy plot with a guaranteed HEA
• Full-length novel, standalone, no cliffhanger

If you loved Delilah Green Doesn't Care or One Last Stop, you'll fall for Proof of Us.