the White Guy at Halloween Store: A BWWM Coworker Romantic Comedy

Imani Ellis only took the seasonal job at Grim & Glitter Halloween for one reason: extra Christmas money.She did not expect Benjamin Clarke.Benji is six-foot-three, blond, tattooed, obsessed with horror movies, and built like he could fight a bear with his bare hands.Unfortunately, he is also terrified of animatronics.Imani discovers this when a motion-activated witch screams behind him and sends the enormous man crashing into a display of plastic skeletons.Naturally, she tells everyone.Even more naturally, she begins terrorizing him with Mr. Giggles-a deeply unsettling three-foot animatronic clown Benji considers his personal enemy.Benji retaliates.Soon their shifts become an escalating war of rubber rats, hidden decorations, ridiculous notes, pumpkin-coffee runs, horror-movie arguments, late-night inventory, and increasingly suspicious amounts of time spent together after work.Then coworkers start assuming they're dating.Customers assume they're dating.Imani's sister definitely thinks they're dating.The problem?Imani and Benji haven't actually discussed it.Somewhere between an autumn festival that is absolutely not a date, a haunted attraction Benji barely survives, and kisses neither of them can keep pretending don't mean anything, their temporary October flirtation starts feeling dangerously permanent.But Grim & Glitter closes after Halloween.And Imani has spent years protecting the peaceful life she built after a relationship that made love feel like another job.Benji might be the first man to show her it doesn't have to.Sometimes love looks like grand gestures.Sometimes it looks like pumpkin coffee, black coffee, a repaired windshield wiper......and a six-foot-three white man screaming at a three-foot clown.The White Guy at the Halloween Store is a cozy, funny BWWM coworker-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring opposites attract, autumn festivals, Halloween-store chaos, a goofy tattooed hero, a Black heroine who refuses to admit she's on a date, microscopic drama, plenty of banter, and one extremely persistent animatronic clown.