Kiss, Cry, Reply
Deana Farrady
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
4.67
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 3 ratings · Published: 31 May 2021
Hello, I'm Gretchen. I work in a tavern. My life is not pretty. Like Cinderella in the fairy tale, I know what struggle is, my reputation is in tatters, and I have serious scars.
That guy over there, he's Mike, the CEO of Sumloven.com. A slick golden boy as admired and beloved as a royal prince, he takes as his due everything my life lacks.
Our circles never should have crossed. My world is light years away from his. He knew it, too. From our first exchange in the virtual world, he hated me.
Yet with every message, every text, it changes. We change. Am I reading more into his words than I should? Because it sure feels like there's something else between the lines...something he's not saying.
No matter where our online back-and-forth leads us, I know one thing. Meeting him in person would be a disaster. He's still the idolized man the gossip rags can't stop talking about...and I'm still a public target.
Even as we move from enemies to friends, the line between us widens with what we can't say....
A rich boy. A poor girl. An intense slow burn that grows out of texts, emails, posts, and throwaway scribbles. A different kind of epistolary romance.
This book is part of the Love in New Highland series. Each book is a standalone and quite different. You don't need to read them in any particular order. They're linked by the fact that they each take place in the fictional city of New Highland, Washington. Besides that, characters do visit each other's stories.
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Tagged as:
- funny 4
- new adult 4
- contemporary 3
- m-f romance 2
- class difference 2
- friends to lovers 2
- good grovel 2
- slow burn 2
- survival 2
- competent heroine 2
- independent heroine 2
- poor heroine 2
- tortured heroine 2
- curvy heroine 2
- working class heroine 2
- sunny/happy hero 2
- sweet/gentle hero 2
- rich hero 2
- ceo/tycoon hero 2
- found family 2
- second chances 1
- secret relationship 1
- small town 1
- sweet/gentle heroine 1
- shy heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child neglect 2
- past abuse 2
- mental illness 1
- mental trauma 1
- slut shaming 1
- suicide / ideation 1
- victim blaming 1
- death / grief 1
- past sexual abuse 1
- Format
- dual pov 2
romance tags
