โAn atmospheric, multilayered, sex-positive romance.โ โKirkus Reviews (starred review)
After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately.
Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, sheโs cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel.
In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. The hotelโs charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where Birdie waits for the early morning ferry after work. Daniel also shares her appetite for intrigue, and heโs stumbled upon a real-life mystery: a famous reclusive writerโnever before seen in publicโmight be secretly meeting someone at the hotel.
To uncover the writerโs puzzling identity, Birdie must come out of her shellโฆdiscovering that the most confounding mystery of all may be her growing feelings for the elusive riddle that is Daniel.