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Dani Torres knows exactly how you take your coffee. She just doesn't know what she wants for herself. Dani runs the coffee shop on Main Street in Ashby, North Carolina, connected by an always-open door to The Recommendation, the bookshop where Claire Keller can find anyone their perfect book. Dani has a master's degree in urban planning she isn't using, a five-year-old son who asks the hard questions, and a gift for reading people so precisely that she can tell what you need before you know it yourself. She adjusted your drink. She lowered the temperature. She arranged the crayons. You never noticed. That's the point. She's spent six years doing her best work in the margins: redesigning buildings on napkins between customers, studying for the certification exam at the register between orders, hiding so well that even Claire's gift can't find her the right book. Brilliant, private, written where nobody looks. When structural engineer Caleb Rowan buys the old post office three doors from her shop, Dani can't stop redesigning the building in her head. Caleb can't stop talking about the bones of it: the heart pine framing, the hand-cut joints, the morning light through windows angled eleven degrees off true east. He talks until his coffee dies. He reads rooms the way she reads people. And on his first visit, he describes the architecture of her coffee shop so precisely that she realizes she built a room designed for one thing: making sure nobody ever has to look at her. Now a developer from Charlotte wants to gut the building. Dani has a design that could save it. And a job offer in Raleigh that could change everything. And a man who keeps saying things about buildings that might be about her. The question isn't what the room should be. The question is whether she'll step out of the margins and into the center of it. *From the author of Recommended for You comes a warm, sharp, and deeply felt novel about a woman who wrote herself into the margins of everyone else's story and has to learn that the reason the room holds together might be her.*

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