Asking for a Friend
Riley Wade had a plan-until it imploded. Now her career is gone, her engagement is over, and she's back in Riverside shelving library books like she never left. Starting over in a town where everyone remembers you is its own special kind of humiliation.
Then her best friend-without asking-submits Riley's entire mess to Maple Street, the Riverside Register's beloved anonymous advice column. The reply is sharp, compassionate, and unsettlingly perceptive, like whoever wrote it can see straight through her. Riley swears she won't write back.
She does. Twice. And then a few more times after that.
Max Slater had no intention of becoming Maple Street. He's already stretched thin keeping his family's struggling newspaper alive-the last thing he needs is to moonlight as an advice columnist. But the first submission from "Asking for a Friend" stops him cold, because he knows who wrote it. Riley Wade: his first love, his longest what-if, and the woman he's been doing an excellent job of not thinking about since she came home.
He should tell her. He knows that. He doesn't.
What unfolds is the most honest exchange either of them has had in years-except it was never truly anonymous, not for Max. He's known who he's writing to from the beginning. And when a journalist blows the whole thing open, Riley doesn't just discover who's behind the column. She discovers he's known it was her all along.
Now she has to decide whether advice given with that kind of knowledge can still be trusted-and whether the man who's been reading between her lines for months is worth trusting with the rest of her story.
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