Loving the Robot

Roxy spent two years with a man who was all surface. Now she owns Buttercup Bookery, and she checks everyone out before she trusts them.

Then she meets someone on a dating app who gets everything right. He's witty and attentive, and he always seems to know exactly what she needs to hear. For the first time in a long time, Roxy lets herself fall.

She needs money, though. Her store's lease is in trouble, and her ex, Spencer, has just bought into her building and wants her back. So she takes a job cataloging the private library of the newcomer in the town mansion. Alex is a brilliant, very private engineer who doesn't make small talk and doesn't flatter anyone. He tells her the plain truth, and somehow she starts looking forward to it.

One man writes her the perfect words. One offers her the picture-perfect life she walked away from. And one hardly says anything, but he keeps showing up for her. Roxy is sure she knows which one is real.

She's about to find out how wrong a careful woman can be.