The Last Front Page: A Clean Small-Town Romance

By Kapil Gupta

A newspaper on its last day. A corporate closer who came to shut it down. A story the town has been dying to read.

Sloane Brixey came home to Calico Ridge, Oregon, with her tail between her legs and her press badge in her pocket. Three years ago, she pushed a source too hard at a city paper and lost everything. Now she keeps the books at her family's small-town weekly -- the Sentinel her grandmother ran for fifty years -- and tells herself she's not hiding.

Then the buyout contract surfaces. A media conglomerate has acquired the Sentinel and intends to close it within ninety days. The only escape: hit impossible subscriber and revenue metrics by December 22. If they fail, the press goes dark
forever.

And the man the chain sends to "smooth the transition" is Reid Halloran -- the boy from across the alley, the paper-route partner she hasn't seen in twelve years, the first love who left for a corporate career and never came back.

When Sloane opens her grandmother's last desk drawer, she finds an unfinished investigation: a dead foreman's testimony about a pipe, a carcinogen, and fifteen years of silenced truth. The story could save the paper. It could also destroy the man she's falling for -- and the town that's been drinking the water.

A clean, enemies-to-lovers romance about local journalism, second chances, and the courage it takes to print the truth when the truth is the thing everyone wants buried.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H9K2WVTK
• ISBN13: 9798188099329
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"