Kick Drums, Crescendos & Kindred Spirits: A Romantic Comedy

By Dalton Douglas

Mason Callahan has rules. Lots of them. Rules keep him steady. Rules keep him safe. Rules keep the world from getting its hands on him.
Unfortunately, the paparazzi have arrived in Dalton anyway-and the harder Mason tries to control the narrative, the louder the outside noise becomes.
Enter Rory Calder: calm, unreadable, and built like a policy manual with a pulse. Rory doesn't flirt. He doesn't perform. He assesses, plans, and enforces boundaries with quiet, lethal competence.
Mason should hate him.
Instead, he finds himself breathing for the first time in years-because Rory doesn't ask Mason to be louder, softer, nicer, or easier. Rory simply stands beside him and holds the line... until Mason realizes what he wants isn't control.
It's restraint. Chosen. Shared. Safe.
A romantic comedy about privacy under pressure, a town that believes consequences are a love language, and a relationship that doesn't need to shout to be real.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GMCJPXX9
• ISBN13: 9798247409663
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"