Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection -- Olivia Dade

<p><strong>3 stories + 3 couples = 6 lonely hearts finding happily-ever-after at last.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>"Sweetest in the Gale" <em>Much ado about love...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Candy Albright has always stomped confidently through the halls of Marysburg High, passionate and loud and entirely devoted to her students and her various English department initiatives. From his first day as her colleague, Griff Conover couldn't look away, despite his best efforts.</p><p><br></p><p>After a summer apart, though, Candy returns to school a changed woman. Muted. Dimmed. Bowed by a grief Griff recognizes all too well, but doesn't yet understand. And when they're thrown together to coordinate a poetry project, he can't resist the urge to read between her lines once and for all--even if doing so means he'll have to confront his own loss...and his own lonely, longing heart.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>"Unraveled" <em>The more tightly wound a man is, the faster he unravels...</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Math teacher Simon Burnham--cool, calm, controlled--can't abide problems with no good solution. Which makes his current work assignment, mentoring art teacher Poppy Wick, nothing short of torture. She's warm but sharp. Chaotic but meticulous. Simultaneously the most frustrating and most alluring woman he's ever known. And in her free time, she makes murder dioramas. Murder dioramas, </em> for heaven's sake. But the more tightly wound a man is, the faster he unravels--