AUTHOR ELM JED

Books in a Series International Impact Award Winner
2024 Runner-Up Winner Pencraft Literary Awards
2025 OKRWG Heart Awards Finalist

On the surface, Autumn Watson is just another barista in NYC.
On the surface, Leonardo Luciano is just another hotel mogul.
Neither saw the other coming, a meet-cute disaster bringing together two of the most unlikely people.

Autumn, a cult-classic movie lover who spends her free time working in the bookstore she lives above, finds herself in front of the hotel mogul by accident. Although Leo appears to be a man with little emotion, something in his hazel eyes tells her there’s more beneath the hardened personality. As their relationship evolves beyond customer and barista, Autumn discovers layer after layer behind his furrowed brow that makes her smile. With every discovery, she increasingly opens up to him, finding comfort in the man who knows how to navigate her panic attacks. Her traumatic past may haunt her, but she feels hope for lasting happiness with every step he’s willing to take with her.
A Rom-Com in the making—on the surface.

We all have bones in closets we wish would stay there.
While other secrets are out in the open, hiding in plain sight.
Only time will tell which of them will have Autumn and Leo question everything they’ve known about the other.
But…whose secret tumbles the first domino?


Content Warnings
Heavy depiction of PTSD flashbacks, anxiety and panic attacks,  thoughts of self-harm, and depression on page.

Discussions of sexual assault and rape, domestic violence, homelessness, death, family loss, and hospital/surgery trauma.

On page, characters are stalked, physically attacked, yelled at, and bullied.

Mental health is heavily discussed in various scenarios.

Aspects of BDSM is shown & discussed.

Major cliffhanger