An Overdue Match (Checking Out Love Book #1): (A Book about Books Closed Door RomCom with a Librarian Heroine)

by Sarah Monzon

“Bravery isn’t the absence of fear.” “No?” Her eyes watered. “What is it then?” He squeezed her fingers. “Bravery is just the voice telling fear he can’t win today.”

I admit there’s a part of me that wants to say yes, to throw caution to the wind and jump on the slim chance that maybe the love of a man could be in my future. That someone could still want me or find me desirable. But that part of me is the naïve optimist.

It was only recently that he’d been able to get out from under other people’s perceptions, and he wanted that same type of freedom for Evangeline.

I learned that living to please others is confining instead of defining.

you say I’m bad and, heaven help me, maybe I am. Maybe I am bad because I’d do anything to be with you, to spend time with you.”

Tai Davis, the town’s reputable bad boy, has the redemption story memorialized on his body for the world to see. Conviction sits uncomfortably on my chest, and I squeeze my eyes shut.

What will allowing myself to step into center stage of my own life feel like?

What movie or book or piece of art shows the leading man falling in love with a bald woman?