Profiles, Promises & Public Opinion: A Romantic Comedy

By: Douglas, Dalton

A polished photographer. A beloved local restaurateur. One very public misunderstanding that refuses to stay contained.

Lorenzo Mancini is good at making people legible. As the photographer behind a glossy business-profile campaign about Dalton's "new faces," he knows exactly how to shape an image that lands. What he does not expect is to get Diego Lopez wrong.

Diego never asked to become a brand.

He runs a restaurant people trust, a place built on consistency, care, and the simple choice to keep showing up. But after Lorenzo's photos and a too-clean profile start convincing half of Dalton that Diego is expanding, reinventing himself, and planning a bigger future he never actually chose, Diego is left correcting a public story that no longer belongs to him.

Fixing the article should be straightforward.

Instead, it means working closely with the man who helped create the problem.

As Lorenzo tries to unlearn his instinct to shape every story into something polished and marketable, Diego has to decide whether being seen accurately is worth the risk of being seen at all. But in a town where opinions travel fast, assumptions stick hard, and everyone thinks they know what comes next, the line between repair and attraction gets harder to hold.

Because the more time Lorenzo spends with Diego, the more obvious it becomes that the real story was never the one on the page.

Profiles, Promises & Public Opinion is a warm, witty small-town M/M romance full of sharp banter, public opinion, slow-building chemistry, and two men learning that being understood is far more dangerous than being seen.

Perfect for readers who love:
small-town romance, opposites-attract tension, forced proximity, public narrative vs. private truth, grounded community stakes, and emotionally satisfying slow-burn connection.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYLNZNBL
• ISBN13: 9798258916655
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"