After the Lights Went Out
An After Hours Novel
Some connections begin when everything else goes quiet.
The bookshop sounds different after hours.
Not frightening.
Just exposed.
When the lights go out in her small-town bookshop, Cora expects nothing more than another inconvenience to manage alone. What she doesn’t expect is Ellis — steady, observant, and far too easy to talk to in the dark.
As late nights stretch on and the shop becomes a space they share, something careful and unspoken begins to form between them. Not rushed. Not loud. Just present.
After the Lights Went Out is a slow-burn, emotionally intimate romance about connection in quiet spaces, the comfort of being truly seen, and the way love can grow when two people stop pretending they don’t need anyone at all.
This story is for readers who love slow-burn tension, emotionally intimate romance, and the quiet moments that linger long after the page is turned.
Some stories don’t need the lights on to be seen.