Rooms That Keep Their Promises

Cozette knows how to build a beautiful room. A life that doesn't fall apart? Still working on that.At twenty-seven, Cozy has engineered her world down to the last detail — her career, her grad school timeline, the carefully maintained distance between herself and everyone who might actually matter. It works. Mostly.Then her new neighbor starts knocking on her door with questions Cozy doesn't know how to answer, and the architect on campus starts looking at her like she's a blueprint she's already memorized. Suddenly the walls she's built so carefully aren't keeping anything out — they're just keeping her in.Pulled between a desire she doesn't trust, a family wound she thought she'd sealed off for good, and the terrifying possibility that letting someone in might not destroy her — Cozy has to ask herself the question she's been avoiding for years: what is she actually building her life for?Warm, slow-burn, and unapologetically spicy — Rooms That Keep Their Promises is a queer contemporary romance about the people who see through you anyway, and the terrifying, beautiful work of letting them.Novel length.