The Wall of Winnipeg and Me
Mariana Zapata, 2016
A defensive end with no manners, the assistant who quits him, and the arrangement that puts them back under one roof.
Feels like longing and wonder. About love and power.
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The person who can talk you down without ever looking up.
What if everyone hates me and no one talks to me? What if someone throws something at me?” Aiden snorted, setting the shirt he’d been holding aside and picking up the next one on the pile. “What are they going to throw? Bookmarks? Mariana Zapata.Zapata self-publishes her romances, and readers prize their extreme slow burn: the tension is stretched over hundreds of pages before it breaks.
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- What is The Wall of Winnipeg and Me like?
- Feels like longing and wonder. About love and power.
- What should I read after The Wall of Winnipeg and Me?
- If you liked The Wall of Winnipeg and Me, try Play Along (Liz Tomforde), The Fine Print (Lauren Asher) and King of Pride (Ana Huang).
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To be the one always understood, and never the one doing the understanding.
I never had to beg for your attention, and I’m not sure you’ll ever fully understand how safe that became for me, knowing you were giving it to me willingly. I never had to ask you to see me, to understand me, and I’m sorry that I haven’t allowed you to be able to say the same. But I promise you, Isaiah, now that my eyes have been opened, I can’t keep them off you.
Play Along · Liz Tomforde
Most romantic line from a man with no heart?
If I had a heart to give, it would be all yours. Free of cost.
The Fine Print · Lauren Asher
What it sounds like when a careful man stops being careful.
I love you, Isabella Valencia.” Simple and raw, stripped of all pretense except for the naked truth that had been staring me in the face all this time. “Every single part of you, from your laugh to your humor to the way you can’t stop talking about condoms.” One of those laughs I loved so much slipped out, thick with emotion. A smile flashed across my face before I sobered again. “You think you’re broken, but I wish you could see yourself the way I see you. Smart. Strong. Beautiful. Imperfect by your own standards but so wonderfully perfect for me.
King of Pride · Ana Huang
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