Skin to Skin, (Paperback)

<b>The world disappears in your arms.</b> <p>Cassia St. Cyr moved nine hours away from the only life she had ever known to disappear from a year that had nearly destroyed her.</p> <p>The cottage she rents is small, charming, and cheap. The blue door has been waiting for her. The cliff path goes down a hundred and fourteen wet stone steps to the sea.</p> <p>What she didn't know, when she signed the lease, was that the cottage isn't the only one trying to disappear.</p> <p>Theo Marsh has been a widower for eighteen months. He has a nine-year-old daughter who reads books to him at the kitchen table, a porch board that gave out the week before Cassia arrived, and a kind of careful, quiet grief he doesn't yet know how to come out of.</p> <p>They are not looking for each other. They keep meeting anyway.</p> <p>At the grocery store. On the cliff path. In the rain at two in the morning, when neither of them can sleep, and a small low warm light in a window across the cedars asks the only question that matters.</p> <p>He doesn't ask about her past. She doesn't ask about his grief.</p> <p>Until they do.</p> <p><b>SKIN TO SKIN</b> is a tender, slow-burn contemporary romance about two people who arrive in each other's lives already broken, and the small specific moments - a stone weighting a bandage, a bay leaf on a saucer, a porch swing in February, a child's hand on an arm at dinner - that build a life back.</p> <p>For readers of <i>It Ends With Us</i>, <i>Beach Read</i>, and <i>Happy Place</i>: a healing romance with a small-town setting, a single dad with a tattooed quiet, a heroine learning to be seen again, a daughter you'll fall in love with by chapter five - and a wedding by the sea you'll see coming and still not be ready for.</p> <p><b>Trope stack: </b> small town, single dad, two broken people, forced proximity, healing romance, found family, HEA.</p> <p><b>Heat level: </b> Open-door, sensual, with consent and care.</p> <p>Includes a reading group guide.</p>

• Skin to Skin, (Paperback)
• Author: Nora Ashford
• ISBN: 9798196307454
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-05-10
• Page Count: 248