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A Short Romance
2025
First Published
3.83
Average Rating
31
Number of Pages

Astrid enjoys two things about her apartment organizing the Little Free Library outside the front doors and admiring her neighbor and crush, Grant. Talking to Grant, unfortunately, always makes her awkward and tongue-tied, so she doesn't try very often because it always ends in embarrassment. One cold morning, Astrid finds a little yellow thank you note inside one of the books in the Little Free Library. Intrigued, she replies, and begins a flirty correspondence with a secret admirer. It's not quite the same as a flesh-and-blood relationship, but on paper, she's far less nervous and much more herself. After a while, her newfound confidence even starts to improve her conversation skills with Grant. Everything is perfect—until Astrid offers to meet her correspondent in person, and the book disappears. Will she ever know who was writing to her? And has she lost her only chance at romance?

Avg Rating
3.83
Number of Ratings
18
5 STARS
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Author

Katie Fitzgerald
Katie Fitzgerald
Author · 8 books

Katie Fitzgerald is the author of Library Lovebirds, an ebook collection of bookish romances, All Year with Anthony, a stand-alone short story, and a novel in flash, The Bennetts Bloom. Her short stories and flash fiction appear online at Havok Publishing, Syncopation Literary Journal, Little Free Lit Mag, Spark Flash Fiction and Micromance Magazine. She is a 2024 Sparkie Award recipient for Best Romantic Suspense, a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and a finalist in three categories of the 2025 Cupid Prize. A graduate of Vassar College and a trained librarian, Katie resides in Maryland with her husband and five kids. Katie's work also appears in the following anthologies: ✿ Wither and BloomOf Ink & PaperCrowns: A Heartbooks AnthologyA Winter Promise: A Dragon Soul Press AnthologySummer Sweethearts: A Contemporary Romance CollectionTails, Scales, & TiarasAnother Chance to Get It Right: A New Year's Eve AnthologyWritten Tales Chapbook XV: Echoes of Ink12 Days of Book-Club-MasThe Dragon Bone Journal: 2025 IssueRecipes for Romance: A Sweet Valentine's Day AnthologyI Love You Unconventionally

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