The Flowers He Sent Before Goodbye
Two days after her partner's funeral, a woman sits on the kitchen floor with his cracked mug, until a knock at the door interrupts the silence.
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Four Hundred Wildflowers
On their tenth anniversary, both newly unemployed, a couple agrees to skip presents, and he still finds a way to fill the flat with wildflowers.
He Asked Her Out for Ice Cream
At office lunch Mai says her father kidnapped her mother, then calls it a Hmong marriage tradition, leaving the table to decide what the story really means.
Chosen Twice
Chosen Twice is a slow-burn marriage-of-duty love story set in Lahore. When Hamid Siddiqui lies dying, he asks his oldest friend to consider a match between their children: his qu
Twelve Hours Ahead
Twelve Hours Ahead is a long-distance love story told through sound. Hana Mori, a baker in snowy Sapporo, Japan, downloads a language-exchange app to learn Spanish. Her first voic
The Window Seat
The Window Seat is a slow-burning, two-timeline love story about what a house remembers. When Nora Vance, a woman starting over at thirty-four, buys a worn farmhouse in a small Ma
The Last Flight Out of Duluth
The Last Flight Out of Duluth is a stranded-together romance about two people who meet on the worst night of their year. A blizzard cancels every flight out of a small Minnesota a
The 7:52 to Pearse
The 7:52 to Pearse is a quiet, slow-building romance between two strangers who share a morning commuter train along Dublin Bay. Nuala Brennan, a primary school teacher with strong
Most Likely To
Most Likely To is a second-chance romance about two high school sweethearts who meet again at their ten-year reunion. Nadia Haddad, a marine biologist in Halifax, almost doesn't g
The Best Man's Speech
The Best Man's Speech is a friends-to-lovers romance set over one wedding weekend in the South African winelands. Ruben Ferreira, a paramedic, has been dreading one job: writing t