The Forty-Five Day Lease

Isla hears the things people think they said in private. It makes her a very good translator, and an impossible person to lie to. But when the lease on her beloved bookstore is set to expire in exactly forty-five days, being an excellent listener isn’t enough. The developer tearing down the block, Lorcán MacAoidh, is relentlessly polite, devastatingly effective, and hiding a countdown of his own—a condition that means he cannot afford to wait. What starts as a desperate negotiation over brick and mortar turns into a race against the clock. As the days tick down on chapter headers, Isla must use her gift to find leverage against him, only to discover that the secrets he doesn't speak are the ones that could destroy them both.