Deckled Edges

Contemporary Queer Romance

Current Status: In Progress / Edits (90,000 words)

Edie (she/her), a 36-year-old New Yorker, is fed up with her day job as a marketing director for a large publishing company, and she’s decided to try her hand at running her own bookshop. After all, she’s been around books and the industry for 14 years. It can’t be that hard, can it? Edie goes all-in on a bookshop named Deckled Edges in Berwick-Upon-Tweed, a small, sea-side town in the UK that her mother talked about fondly. The store has ups and downs, a dog adoption, a bumbling and geriatric inventory manager named Pearl, and problems with the building’s historic plumbing.

Cam (they/them), a property manager based in Edinburgh who’s a romantic at heart (and confirmed lover of Cameron Crowe films), gets hired to oversee restoration at Deckled Edges by an unnamed buyer who’s taken interest in the store. Cam’s workaholic mentality and devotion to details has given them an edge in the business, but those same qualities have proven to be problematic in their romantic relationships. When Cam sees Edie, however, work takes a back seat, and Cam sets out to make Edie their own.

The two smooth out their rough edges in order to find themselves and each other.