Things We Never Got Over
Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way…with fists and beer. Usually in that order. Too bad for Naomi her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with something unexpected. The niece Naomi didn’t know she had. Now she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no plan, and no home with an 11-year-old going on thirty to take care of. There’s a reason Knox doesn’t do complications or high-maintenance women, especially not the romantic ones. But since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least he can do is help her out of her jam. And just as soon as she stops getting into new trouble he can leave her alone and get back to his peaceful, solitary life. At least, that’s the plan until the trouble turns to real danger.
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Runaway bride Naomi Witt drives from Manhattan to the Virginia mountain town of Knockemout to bail out her trouble-magnet twin Tina, who skips out and leaves Naomi with an eleven-year-old niece named Waylay and a dead car.
Yes. Things We Never Got Over contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Lucy Score's contemporary romance is known for steamy content with banter.
Yes. Things We Never Got Over contains explicit on-page romance scenes, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. Lucy Score's contemporary romance is known for steamy content with banter.
Lucy Score's Knockemout series has four books: Things We Never Got Over, Things We Hide from the Light, Things We Left Behind, and Things We Burn. Each features a different couple in the same small Virginia town.
Things We Never Got Over was written by Lucy Score, published in 2022 by Bloom Books.
Things We Never Got Over is 500 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Things We Never Got Over takes most readers 8 to 11 hours to finish.
Things We Never Got Over is a standalone novel by Lucy Score, not part of a series.
Things We Never Got Over is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.