I usually reserve my romance five stars for Meredith Duran only but this was so delightful and I am so depressed that it absolutely earns it for cheering me up. I love this dynamic and I loved that at several points the author clearly took pains to avoid lazy plotting, which made the characters feel even more well drawn. This book felt structured a little differently than romance usually is (maybe it's more the pace? Idk) and it absolutely worked for me. Just enough angst and probably the best executed UST I've read in romance in quite some time. There were also some really lovely secondary characters I look forward to reading about more.