Booktok Award Novels & Stories

It really means a lot. Bye. Here are the awards this book has won. | • Oh and if you want, you can create a cover for me! That'd be so lovely. Anyway, thank you so much and bye bye! >< MBM IS NOW ON "OKADABOOKS" read for brand new scenes! ALL THE LOVE, C O C O

Somewhere in the city—several stories above, in a steel and glass building—Julian Blackwood lay in his dark, sleek bedroom, staring at the book she had given him. He'd never intended to keep it. When Lena Carter had offered it to him—those gentle words, that thoughtful crease between her eyebrows—he'd intended to refuse. But something in her eyes had taken away his intention. It was neither flirting nor pretense. It was genuine. Silent. Generous. He hated kindness. It broke things open. Julian gazed down at the book. The cover was unadorned, the title in gold print: *A Man Called Ove*. He remembered Lena's words: