Beyond the Stacks and Stones

Rivals in person, honest in writing: an enemies-to-lovers romance set in Austin. Book 3 of The Morning Set Series by Gabriella Quist.

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Rivals in person. Honest in writing.

Elise Abbott guards Austin’s past for a living. As the city’s new full-time archivist, she can catalog a century in an afternoon. What she cannot do is say her own hardest thing out loud, not to her closest friends, not even to Mamí. She carries a quiet fear about the family she longs for, and she has carried it alone.

Tariq Kamal builds Austin’s future. The structural engineer trusts facts, load calculations, and very little else. People have let him down. Institutions have too. In his half-unpacked apartment sits a box from his Chicago life, in handwriting he knows too well. He has never opened it.

Thrown together as co-chairs of the Austin book festival, preservation against development, they spar in every meeting and confess in every email. In person, it is war. In writing, it is the most honest either of them has ever been.

When the secrets they traded in private are exposed in public, trust stops being a word. Beyond the Stacks and Stones is an enemies-to-lovers story about two guarded people learning, fact by fact and email by email, to be known.