Coffee and Confessions
A Small-Town Second-Chance Romance of a Broken Promise, a Fake Reunion, and the First Love Who Came Back Carrying SecretsBy Albert A. Birchall
Length8h 17m
About this audiobook
"Pinky swear that no matter what happens, you'll always tell me the truth."
Maya Chen was seventeen when Jamie Russo hooked his little finger around hers beside a dying bonfire and promised.
No lies. No disappearing.
He disappeared anyway.
Now Maya is back in Ashford, Oregon — population three thousand and dropping — running the coffee shop she always swore she'd open, half-raising her little sister, holding her family together one shift at a time.
She built a life out of the pieces he left behind.
Then the door she swore she'd never open opens.
And there he is. Jamie Russo. Older, sharper, a ghost in her espresso machine, carrying secrets she can smell on him like bonfire smoke.
He needs something from her. She needs something from him.
And the lie they agree to tell the whole town to get it — that they're together again, like nothing ever broke — is the most dangerous truth either of them has ever risked.
Because pretending to love Jamie Russo feels far too much like remembering.
He charmed everyone once. He performed for everyone. But Maya was the only one who ever made him promise the real truth.
The trouble is, the realest truth of all is the one he's been hiding since the night he left — and it has Maya's name written all over it.
"I'd find you," he told her once. "I'd look in every diner between here and Seattle."
He never did. And now he's standing in her shop asking her to trust him again, when trust is the one thing he taught her to live without.
What we said after midnight built them. What he didn't say nearly destroyed them.
Now, with a secret big enough to break them both, Maya has to decide whether some broken promises can be remade — or whether love is just one more thing this town takes away.
Coffee and Confessions is a tender, slow-burn small-town romance about a fake relationship, a secret that changes everything, friends-to-lovers history, workplace tension, and a love story that demands the truth before it can earn a second chance.
Perfect for readers who love fake-relationship romance, small-town second chances, friends-to-lovers slow burns, emotional reunions, and a hero who has to win back the one he left behind. A standalone romance with a heartfelt happy ending.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, General Fiction
Length8 hrs 17 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
15Chapter 13 - The Silence Between
2Prologue
16Chapter 14 - The Other Secret
3Chapter 1 - The Scone That Started It
17Chapter 15 - The Debt Doesn’t Sleep
4Chapter 2 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
18Chapter 16 - The One I’ll Protect
5Chapter 3 - The Ghost in the Espresso Machine
19Chapter 17 - The Fire We Survive
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6Chapter 4 - The Offer I Shouldn’t Have Taken
20Chapter 18 - The Black Moment
7Chapter 5 - The Blueberry Dream
21Chapter 19 - The Lie That Wins
8Chapter 6 - The Storm Coffee
22Chapter 20 - The Grand Gesture Begins
9Chapter 7 - The Price of a Secret
23Chapter 21 - The Truth That Costs
10Chapter 8 - The Counter-Offer
24Chapter 22 - The Wait That Tests
11Chapter 9 - The Wound We Share
25Chapter 23 - The Final Resistance
12Chapter 10 - The Father’s Shadow
26Chapter 24 - The First Morning
13Chapter 11 - The Confession at Midnight
27About the Author
14Chapter 12 - The Committed Lie
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