Description
How much of yourself do you have to hide before hiding becomes who you are?
Elle Sinclair knows everybody has secrets. She's an investigative journalist. Discovering what people aren't saying is part of the job.
She also knows some truths belong to the person living them.
Max Donovan would agree. The grumpy organic farmer has built a good life with his two teenagers in Willow Creek, Pennsylvania, and he likes it that way—quiet, private, and uncomplicated.
Then the power goes out.
A town-wide blackout strands Max and the relentlessly sunny Elle together at Perk Up, waiting for coffee that isn't coming. In the first light of morning, they look at each other—and something neither expected passes between them.
Connection.
Ignoring it would probably be sensible.
But sensible has very little to do with what happens next.
Soon Sunshine and Grumpy are colliding over town business, family, secrets, attraction, and a relationship neither planned for. The result is funny, messy, increasingly sexy, and complicated by one unavoidable problem: getting close to someone makes keeping parts of yourself safely out of sight considerably harder.
And maybe that's not entirely a bad thing.
Max and Elle are prosperous. They have meaningful work, independence, and lives they've deliberately built for themselves. What neither realizes is how much they've been playing small to protect the lives they've built.
Until love asks something more of them.
Not more money. Not more success. More truth.
A warm, funny, increasingly sexy romantic comedy about family, second chances, unexpected connection, and the courage to stop playing small.
Because Sunshine Wakes Up Grumpy isn't a story about finding someone who completes you. It's about finding someone who loves you so completely, you feel safe enough to be completely yourself.
As Max and Elle embrace their truth, each other, and the unexpected family they're creating together, they discover that the fullest life isn't necessarily the one with the most.
It's the one you no longer have to hide inside.
Details
Publisher - Lumora Press
Language - English
Perfect Bound
Contributors
By author
Sable Burns
Published Date - 2025-07-07
ISBN - 9780982810897
Dimensions - 20.3 x 13.3 x 2.1 cm
Page Count - 368
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