The Reluctant Romantic: The Closed-Door Edition (Unclaimed Hearts Series: The Closed-Door Edition)
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Content Warnings This book contains closed-door romantic intimacy, strong language, past infidelity, betrayal trauma, age-gap romance, family conflict, grief over a parent’s death, emotional insecurity, and adult relationship themes. Intimate moments are presented without explicit sexual detail. Intended for mature readers.The Reluctant RomanticTyler Hayes still believes in forever. He just doesn’t trust it anymore.At thirty-six, Tyler is the steady one—the last of his old college friends still quietly wanting marriage, a house, kids, and someone who stays. He almost had it once, until he came home early with a ring in his pocket and found the woman he planned to marry in bed with someone else.Years later, Tyler has rebuilt his life behind the counter at Crossroads Powersports, handling numbers, paperwork, and the kind of predictable details that don’t break your heart. Then a bold, barely dressed stranger walks in, flirts badly, and disappears before he can figure out why she seems familiar.Lainey Sands never meant to make Tyler feel like a joke.Shy, traditional, and tired of pretending she fits with friends who keep pushing her to be louder, Lainey only took the dare because Tyler was the boy -door crush she never outgrew. But when the truth comes out, Tyler sees disguise, games, and a woman he can’t fully trust.Lainey wants the same forever Tyler does. Now one awkward beginning could cost them both the future they want.The Reluctant Romantic is a closed-door contemporary romance about a grounded hero, a shy heroine, a messy dare, vintage-car tension, found family, old betrayal wounds, and two people brave enough to admit they want forever. Read more
