Length7h 1m
About this audiobook
The buzzer by the side door reads O'SHEA in faded black marker on a strip of painter's tape. Three doors down, a bakery is burning the croissants again. Leo has a duffel bag and nowhere better to be.
The apartment two flights up looks like someone shook a house and everything inside fell where it landed. A guitar leans against a stack of pizza boxes. A power drill sits next to a coffee mug with something growing in it. Wires trail from an amp and vanish under a couch missing two cushions.
Jamie O'Shea comes out wiping his hands on a rag that was probably a towel once, varnish on his cheekbone and a scar above his right eyebrow, and goes straight to the part their mutual friend told him. *She also said you're running from something.*
Leo is running from something. His ex kept the apartment. His ex kept the cat too.
Jamie is not doing much better. A commission for a custom dining set fell through after he had already bought the wood, and a photograph of his ex is still stuck to the fridge door.
So they conduct the interview with two beers in a kitchen where the cabinets don't match, and Leo finishes his and takes the room.
He does not mention that his novel, about a lighthouse keeper in the 1890s who begins seeing his dead wife in the light, has been stalled at chapter four, or how many times he has rewritten the same scene. Jamie does not mention the cardboard box he found under his workbench, the one he taped back shut badly after opening it.
Then there is a stray cat at the back door with a chipped tooth, a brother with a key and a habit of killing succulents, a friend dangling a senior design job in Brooklyn, and an ex in Portland who is not finished with any of this.
This is a slow-burn contemporary romance between two men learning how to keep things: a cat, a workshop, a grandmother's rocking chair, a room that stops being a room somebody rents. The romance is closed-door.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance, Biography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 1 min
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Dedication
2Chapter 1 - The Door I Swore I’d Never Open
3Chapter 2 - A Stranger in My Kitchen
4Chapter 3 - The Girl Who Never Left
5Chapter 4 - The Cat at the Back Door
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6Chapter 5 - The Night the Power Failed
7Chapter 6 - The Ex Who Won’t Stay Gone
8Chapter 7 - The Movie Night That Changed Everything
9Chapter 8 - The Workshop on Maple Street
10Chapter 9 - The Bar Where Everyone Knows Your Name
11Chapter 10 - The Jealousy I Didn’t Know I Had
12Chapter 11 - The Confession That Scares Me
13Chapter 12 - The Accident That Brings Us Closer
14Chapter 13 - The Breakfast That Means Yes
15Chapter 14 - The Clambake That Brings a Storm
16Chapter 15 - The Phone Call That Makes a Rift
17Chapter 16 - The Rival Who Wants Me Back
18Chapter 17 - The Ex Who Won’t Stay Hidden
19Chapter 18 - The Lie That Breaks Us
20Chapter 19 - The Girl Who Thinks She Knows Best
21Chapter 20 - The Empty Room
22Chapter 21 - The Drive That Doesn’t End
23Chapter 22 - The Grand Gesture That Costs Everything
24Chapter 23 - The Letter I Should Have Written
25Chapter 24 - The Dinner That Heals Old Wounds
26Chapter 25 - The Roommate Who Became Home
27About the Author
28The End
29About the Author
30Also by Paige Sinclair
31Acknowledgements
32A Note from the Author
