Eleanor Mae Whitford

Before sunrise, Clara Reyes thinks she knows how her life works.

Her bakery opens early. Her routines are exact. The world stays small on purpose. In a town that watches and whispers, control feels like safety, and quiet mornings are her refuge.

Then Mae Lin walks in.

Blunt, observant, and committed to the truth, Mae is a food journalist sent to profile the bakery. What should be a short interview stretches into a week of shared dawns, lingering questions, and habits that start to blur. Mae comes back morning after morning. Steam fogs the windows. Coffee cools untouched. Professional lines soften into something harder to dismiss.

In a small town, attention spreads fast. Gossip sharpens. Assumptions settle in. Clara is forced to face a fear she’s avoided for years: what happens when someone sees the parts she’s kept carefully out of view.

Mae isn’t chasing a headline romance. She wants honesty. Clara has to decide whether protecting her solitude is worth losing a connection that feels quietly real.

As early mornings turn into shared silences and low laughter, both women face the same question from opposite sides of the counter.

Can something built on routine become something that lasts?

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Part of the Ordinary Days Romance series, where modern women find unexpected love in the moments they never planned for.

Ordinary Days Romance is a contemporary, clean lesbian FF romcom series about love that arrives quietly and rearranges everything. These stories live in everyday spaces: bakeries before sunrise, thin apartment walls, crowded events, shared responsibilities, and teamwork that sneaks up on you. Each standalone novel follows two women who aren’t looking for romance, only to run into it through timing, choices, and small moments that keep stacking up. Warm and playful, the books balance humor with tenderness and deliver an unmistakable happily-ever-after because even ordinary days can surprise you.

Sometimes love doesn’t knock. It just moves in.

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