Between the Lines and Blueprints
A cozy slow-burn romance about found family and building a love that requires no hiding. Book 1 of The Morning Set Series by Gabriella Quist, out now.
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Safety kept her inside the lines. Love asked her to build something braver.
For twenty-seven-year-old Maeve Miller, safety is a life kept firmly under control. Between her anxiety, her alphabetized pantry, and the faint scar she traces when the world gets too loud, Maeve has spent years drawing inside the lines. Then a sudden layoff tears up the floor plan.
A new job at Inkwell & Thistle Press gives her solid ground again, and a first, glittering romance gives her a lesson she did not ask for: what it costs to be someone’s secret. Refusing to shrink, Maeve starts over, held up by a fierce circle of women who have always been her family.
Then she meets Alistair Sterling, a brilliant architect who sketches buildings on coffee-shop napkins and believes the best foundations are built honestly, in the open. With him, trust is not a promise. It is a practice.
Spanning nine months of heartbreak, sisterhood, and slow-burn chemistry in Austin, Texas, Between the Lines and Blueprints is about tearing up the old blueprint and building a love that requires no hiding.
Launch edition cover. Illustrated series covers coming 2027.
Meet Maeve & Alistair
Maeve Miller
Alistair Sterling
Tropes:
Slow burn
Forced collaboration
Found family
Starting over
What to expect: A slow-burn, clean romance. Female friendship is never diminished by a love interest.
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From the launch
Map of Maeve’s Austin →
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