Records, Rumors & Reluctant Romance: A Romantic Comedy

Anton Orlov came to Dalton to do one thing: follow the paperwork, find the missing link, and close the case.Instead, he finds a town that keeps its history in half-filed records, old family loyalties, and the kind of quiet local knowledge no outsider can access without permission. The Marchand property claim should have been straightforward. It isn't. The paper trail is soft where it should be clear, the family story changes depending on who tells it, and the one man who seems to understand how any of it fits together is Joshua Rhodes.Joshua is grounded, capable, and completely unimpressed by Anton's credentials. He knows Dalton's roads, its people, and the places where official records stop telling the whole truth. If Anton wants answers, he'll have to work with a man who challenges every assumption he makes-and who becomes harder to ignore with every conversation, argument, and reluctant step deeper into the case.What begins as a search for one missing connection turns into something far more complicated: a story about who gets remembered, who gets left out, and who still belongs when the paperwork says otherwise.As the investigation closes in on the truth, Anton and Joshua find themselves caught between public record and private loyalty, professional distance and undeniable attraction. Because in Dalton, the facts may matter-but so do the people who decide what gets held on to, and what gets allowed to disappear.Records, Rumors & Reluctant Romance is a small-town romantic comedy about belonging, buried history, slow-burn chemistry, and two men discovering that some truths can't be filed neatly away.

Pagina's: 332, Paperback, Independently published