When misfortune disguises as glee and knocks at every household, Julienne Ramos gladly let him in. She was stabbed from the back several times. She wants to give up, but every time she attempts to prune the thin string that binds her to life, she always ends up failing. Julienne thought that she might be saved by the sliver of light that she stumbled upon during her gloomy days, but she's wrong. She's wrong all along. The cut that her only hope caused to her heart was so deep, she barely survived. "I should have known. I should have known better, but it's too late now, I still end up fooling in love with the jerk." -Julienne

She answered a stranger’s note. She wasn’t supposed to fall for the person who wrote it. At twenty-three, Mara Reyes is supposed to be moving forward. Instead, she’s working at The Paper Moon—the same cozy, slightly falling-apart bookstore café where she once studied for a future she’s no longer sure she wants. Then she finds a handwritten note tucked inside an old copy of Persuasion at Table Seven. She answers it. Soon, one note becomes many. He calls himself Seven. She becomes M. Their rules are simple: no real names, no phone numbers, no social media, and no trying to discover who the other person is. On paper, Seven knows the parts of Mara she rarely lets anyone see. But outside the pages, there’s Eli Bennett—the quiet regular with terrible shelving habits, coffee without sugar, and an irritating talent for remembering the smallest things about her. And Mara is beginning to fall for him, too. Then Seven leaves one final note: Friday. 7:00 p.m. Table Seven. It’s time to meet. But some love stories begin long before you realize who you’ve been falling for.