Drop, Cover, and Hold On

Daisy Murray had planned to spend Valentine's Day alone with a stack of rom-coms. Instead she is in a neighborhood bakery when an earthquake hits, and when the shaking stops she is shut in with the one person she least wanted to be stuck with: the bakery's owner and head baker, a man who has never once returned her smile.

Forced to wait out the aftershocks together, the two of them have nothing to do but talk. What Daisy assumed was rudeness turns out to be something more complicated, and the hours in the dark rearrange everything she thought she knew about him.

Drop, Cover, and Hold On is a novella-length contemporary romance, part of The Improbable Meet-Cute collection of standalone stories about finding love where you least expect it. It can be read in a single sitting.