Stolen Closeness: Emotional Affair and Grovel Romance

He was married. She wasn't looking for anything at all.

Neither one of them meant for this to happen — they just kept writing back.

Fenella Gallant has eleven months to save her late grandmother's letterpress shop before the town hands the building to a hotel developer, and no idea how to fix the century-old press sitting dead in the middle of it.

So, when Lachlan Fraser sends his son to do the job, Fen doesn't ask many questions.

Innes is quiet, steady, married, and two hours from home — exactly the kind of man who's easy to work beside and impossible to think twice about.

Except she does think twice. And then she starts leaving him notes.

It begins as nothing — supply orders, dry jokes, the ordinary shorthand of two people who work well together.

But somewhere between a restored printing press and an old newsroom wall of pigeonholes neither of them should be using this way, the notes stop being nothing at all.

Fen tells Innes things she's never told anyone. Innes tells her things he's never told his wife. Neither of them touches the other. Neither of them stops.

When the truth comes out — and it does, the way truths folded into coat pockets always do — it costs Innes his marriage and Fen the version of herself who believed she'd done nothing wrong.

What's left is the hardest kind of story to tell honestly: not a betrayal with a villain in it, but two decent people who let closeness happen in secret because neither of them was brave enough to ask for it in the open.

Stolen Closeness is a slow-burn, dual-POV contemporary romance about the difference between fidelity of the body and fidelity of attention — and about what it actually takes to earn someone back once you've proven you can hurt them.

If you want your grovel arc to hurt before it heals, your small town to feel lived-in, and your happy ending to be built on two people finally telling the truth in daylight instead of on paper — this one's for you.

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E-bog: 3. september 2026