Meet me at platform nine

Tessa Monroe knows her morning routine so well that she really doesn't need an alarm clock anymore, because at 7:42 a.m., she's standing on the same platform, getting on the same car, holding the same coffee in her hand, and, for the past few weeks, she's also been running into the same man, who waits just a few meters away and lets his coffee go cold with impressive consistency. Elias Warren has long since caught her eye, even though Tessa stubbornly convinces herself that it's perfectly normal to know when a stranger gets on the train, where he stands, and on which days he's apparently in a particularly bad mood.Then one morning the train is canceled; an annoyed comment turns into a conversation, a conversation turns into a ride together, and a complete stranger suddenly becomes someone Tessa finds herself looking forward to seeing just a little too much each morning. Elias is attentive, charming, and dangerously good at noticing things about her that she'd rather keep to herself, and as chance encounters slowly turn into shared coffees, text messages, and finally real dates, Tessa begins to suspect that sometimes all that stands between habit and falling in love is a single missed train. Unfortunately, just at that moment, Elias gets the career opportunity he's been waiting for, and it's in Manchester, of all places, so suddenly the question is no longer whether they'll catch the same train in the morning, but whether two people can still find their way to each other even when life keeps throwing them a different schedule.A humorous and heartwarming "strangers-to-lovers" rom-com about delayed trains, morning routines, coffee that's way too good, and the realization that some people walk into your life exactly when you least expect them to.