Unknown Sender

Maren starts her day at 2:47 a.m., elbow-deep in biscuit dough in a shared commissary kitchen, because the food truck she built from nothing does not run itself. Then a text arrives from a number she does not know, asking how much vinegar her mother used in a recipe. It is clearly meant for someone else, and Maren answers anyway. That is how it starts: a wrong number, a stranger who punctuates his messages, and a habit of writing to each other in the small hours when neither of them can sleep. He is funny, careful and kind, and he never asks her to meet. She never asks him to explain. What Maren does not know is that her anonymous late-night friend is Abel, a city inspector whose office has just assigned him to evaluate her truck, and that he has done everything by the book except the one thing that matters: telling her. As his official recusal takes effect and her business faces its most important review, the question stops being whether the two of them can stay strangers and becomes what it costs to stop. Unknown Sender is a warm, funny contemporary romance about secrets told in the dark, rules that stop making sense, and the people we are most honest with at three in the morning. Expect biscuits, ethics, text threads and a slow burn that earns every kiss. For readers of small-business romance, secret-identity love stories and sweet, witty contemporary romance.