By Sandra Stone
A stubborn librarian. A guarded mechanic. One broken-down bookmobile-and a past that refuses to stay buried.
Lila Monroe has eight weeks to turn Oakhaven's aging bookmobile into a working community lifeline. What she needs is reliable transportation, a reasonable repair bill, and absolutely no complications.
Then Cole Maddox opens the hood.
Quiet, capable, frustratingly observant, and far too good at making her laugh, Cole is the mechanic everyone in Oakhaven thinks they already knows. The town remembers his arrest, his mistakes, and every rumor attached to his name.
Lila would rather read the record than believe the gossip.
Cole has spent years taking responsibility for the man he used to be. He has served his sentence, paid restitution, completed treatment, and built a different life-but accepting consequences is easier than believing he deserves a future that contains something good.
Especially someone like Lila.
As late nights repairing the bookmobile turn into dinners, teasing, stolen kisses, and an attraction neither of them can file neatly away, their connection becomes impossible to dismiss. But when Cole's past becomes part of Lila's public-history project, private feelings collide with professional responsibility and the judgment of a town that remembers everything.
Lila cannot erase his history.
Cole does not want her to.
What they must decide is whether loving someone requires rewriting the past-or simply having the courage to build something honest after it.
Pages, Pistons, and Promises is an emotionally grounded, steamy small-town romance about accountability, second chances, trust, community, and two adults learning that being truly known does not have to mean being condemned forever.
Perfect for readers who love:
Some promises are made with words. Others are built one careful repair at a time.
Return to Oakhaven and discover Cole and Lila's story in Pages, Pistons, and Promises.
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