My Red Flag Is Older Than Me: Age Clash Opposites Attract Romance

Zella Marrow has three rules: never date boring men, never trust a man who owns more than one velvet jacket, and never fall for someone old enough to remember life before smartphones.

Then Calder Veyne walks into Bellweather Cove.

He is older. Infuriatingly composed. Ridiculously attractive. And apparently determined to make Zella question every rule she's ever written in permanent ink.

Calder isn't looking for romance. He's in town to settle an old family mystery before the Midnight Lantern Festival exposes a secret someone has spent twenty years burying. Zella only gets involved because she accidentally steals his suitcase, insults him in front of half the town, and discovers that the mysterious stranger has been hiding something much more personal than a family scandal.

Soon, their arguments become flirting. Their flirting becomes dangerous. And their accidental encounters become impossible to explain away.

But Bellweather Cove has a problem: someone is watching them.

As anonymous love notes, vanished photographs, and one spectacularly disastrous festival night pull Zella and Calder closer together, they must decide whether their age difference is the biggest red flag in the room—or merely the easiest one to blame.

Because sometimes the person you absolutely should not want is the one person you cannot stop wanting.