Wanted on sight

Marcus fell for Izel the moment he saw her and spent three weeks too terrified to say a single word, watching her from a distance and secretly sculpting her likeness in clay instead.

Izel noticed him right back.

Unlike anyone sane, she didn't call the police. She decided she liked what she saw.

When she finally corners her "stalker" in a grocery store aisle, what unfolds is a tender, slow burn romance between a fiercely independent woman who's never let anyone close, and a painfully shy sculptor who's never had the courage to try. An ice cream truck, a hand carved porcelain flower, and a cornered confession later, Marcus is hers.

But Marcus's world isn't just his own. His controlling mother treats his art, his time, and his life like property and she has no intention of making room for Izel in it.

A slow burn romance about two guarded hearts finally letting each other in.