The Cinnamon Bun Book Store (Dream Harbor, #2)

by Laurie Gilmore

Her heartbeat immediately ratcheted up. She opened the book and found a highlighted line. I met a girl this summer. Innocuous. Innocent. And yet... She grabbed the next book. The kiss was incendiary. He could have sworn his entire body had gone up in flames. A bit over the top but Hazel knew the feeling. She grabbed another, working her way down the pile. Each book had a marked page and a highlighted line. Each book set her heart beating faster. This couldn’t be... Attraction: noun: the action or power of evoking interest, pleasure, or liking for someone or something. She put down the dictionary and took the next book. A picture book. ‘Will you be my best friend?’ the fox asked the rabbit. ‘But we’re so different,’ said the rabbit. ‘That’s why I like you.’ A scientific journal: According to a team of scientists led by Dr. Monica Hunter at Yale, romantic love can be broken down into three categories: lust, attraction, and attachment. The science-fiction novel that had been flying off the shelves: She brought him back to life, reconstructed him into a better version than the original. And he felt alive. He was alive. He was real. The latest in the fantasy series Noah had been reading on the boat: Fierce sea birds swooped from the sky, but he held them back. Anything to protect the princess. She couldn’t help the laugh that escaped her at that. The next book was small and worn; the perfect size to smuggle in a purse. She didn’t know when her hands had started to shake. He dip...