The Cozy Crossword Crush

Oliver Marsh has been building crosswords for seven years, and he's always assumed nobody was really looking. Then came the email. Every Monday, 11:47 a.m., one line, no name:Completed. Just a single letter for a signature: V. For six months, Oliver made the puzzles harder. V finished them faster. So Oliver made a different kind of decision - and buried a message inside his weekly grid, visible only to someone who knew exactly where to look.
Find me if you're good enough. Amelia Voss found it on the second read-through. A structural engineer with a sharp eye for hidden patterns and a competitive streak she doesn't bother to hide, Amelia has been solving Oliver's puzzles every Monday morning like clockwork. Finding a secret message embedded in the grid? That's not a surprise. Finding herself genuinely curious about the man who put it there? That's new.
What starts as a hand-drawn puzzle duel in the public library becomes something neither of them planned for: accidental coffee meetings that run too long, honest conversations on a riverbank in February, and a city-wide crossword tournament that forces two people who are better at building structures than talking about feelings into the same team - and the same corner of every room. Oliver has spent eight years making sure no one could take anything from him by leaving.
Amelia has spent just as long not assuming a load path is there until she's verified it herself. They are, in the language they've both been quietly learning, exactly each other's kind of problem. A clean, witty, slow-burn romance for readers who like their love stories the way they like their best puzzles - layered, precise, and worth every second it takes to solve. Start reading with Look Inside - the first chapter is waiting.