Brand New Sky

He's taking a break. New city, new house, new chapter — one that includes a seven-year-old who has his eyes and deserves a father who shows up.

Sway is not the man people think he is. He knows that. He's spent years being the fun one, the flirt, the one nobody worries about. He's fine with it. Mostly.

His neighbor is not fine with him.

She's guarded and quiet and deeply unimpressed, and Sway finds that absolutely fascinating. What he doesn't know yet is that Ryan is Sullivan Summers — his favorite author. The one whose books he's been reading on the tour bus with Zelda. The one who writes love like she understands exactly how it feels to be afraid of it.

Getting close to her is slow, careful work. She doesn't trust easily and she has good reasons not to. But Sway is patient when it matters, and it turns out he speaks her language in all the ways that count.

Then both their families decide to remind them why walls exist.

Slow burn. Single dad. Closed door. Found family. For everyone who ever needed someone to show up and just keep showing up.