Trim & Proper

She teaches people how to behave. He is the tattooed barber next door determined to make her forget every rule.

Arabella Pemberton has built her life around good manners, careful planning, and the etiquette school her grandmother entrusted to her. Then Garrick Cox opens a barbershop next door, complete with tattoo artists, loud music, and a maddening talent for making her lose her composure.

When Arabella marches into his shop to correct a few problems, Garrick fixes every one of them. Unfortunately, he also starts calling her Miss Proper.

Even worse, beneath the tattoos and shameless teasing is a thoughtful man who listens, remembers, and treats every person who enters his shop with genuine care. As shared events, etiquette lessons, and a community program keep pushing them together, their professional friction turns into irresistible chemistry.

But when good intentions become decisions made without the other person, Arabella and Garrick must decide whether they can stop protecting their separate lives long enough to build something together.

Trim & Proper is a witty, tender contemporary romantic comedy featuring a tattooed barber, a delightfully prim etiquette instructor, neighboring businesses, opposites-attract chemistry, slow-burn tension, sharp banter, found family, and a swoony fade-to-black romance.