Unscripted Valentine: A Forced Proximity Small-Town Romcom

By Charli Reethke

She narrates love for a living. She just doesn't believe in it anymore.

After escaping a long, toxic relationship, Elodie Michaels hides out in Cupid Corner to finish a career-critical audiobook contract. Performing intimacy behind a microphone is easy. Trusting it in real life is absolutely dangerous.

But life isn't fair, and sometimes clich meet-cutes really do happen: like literally falling into the surprisingly strong arms of the quiet, devastatingly attractive bookshop owner.

Fitz is calm where Elodie expects chaos. A British bookshop owner with rolled sleeves, a sensual voice (with the aforementioned unfairly attractive accent), and a habit of taking care of people without asking for anything in return. He offers her a silent place to record, no strings attached-and somehow becomes part of her daily routine before she realizes what's happening.

Coffee refills. Soft check-ins. Him listening from the other side of the door.
Late afternoons blur into lingering looks... until one reckless decision turns a professional favor into something far more physical-right there in the recording booth.

Elodie draws a line. She can handle desire. She can handle just sex. What she can't handle is believing in love again. Fitz agrees to her rules, even though he's already fallen for her.

With Valentine's Day looming and Cupid Corner determined to celebrate love whether she wants it to or not, Elodie has to decide if protecting herself is worth walking away from the one man who never asked her to be anything but honest.

Unscripted Valentine is a cozy, spicy, small-town romantic comedy about healing after heartbreak, a cinnamon-roll British hero with a dominant streak, and the terrifying realization that real love might be actually exist outside of a romance novel.

Tropes & Vibes
- Grumpy heroine x sunshine hero
- He falls first
- Forced proximity
- Bookshop romance
- British hero
- Friends with benefits to more
- Caretaking when she's sick
- Healing from a toxic ex
- Small-town Valentine's Day with meddling side characters
- High spice, emotional payoff
- Grand gesture (airport chase)
- HEA guaranteed

Perfect for fans of Book Lovers by Emily Henry, The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary, and Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GL36GRLJ
• ISBN13: 9798246187562
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 8.0"