About Coffee Eyes and Little White Lies

Charlotte Davenport built an empire on discipline and control, and at thirty-six, she isn't about to let anything as inconvenient as feelings undo it. But her twin's wedding means a season of dress fittings, champagne toasts, and entirely too much time around the ex-fiancée she would rather erase from memory. So when her well-meaning family starts asking who she's bringing, Charlotte does the unthinkable: she gets herself a girlfriend.

Fake and uncomplicated, obviously.

Ali McCarthy doesn't stay anywhere long. Six cities, ten years, one cat, and zero regrets. Then she lands behind the counter of a Boston coffee shop, where a woman with an enviable wardrobe orders the same thing four mornings a week. Six months of doodles on coffee cups. Six months of saving the blueberry scones. So when the razor-sharp CEO finally asks her something other than how her morning is going, Ali says yes without consulting common sense. Everything goes according to plan until Ali discovers the woman beneath all that polished control and for the first time in a decade, walking away might be the hardest thing she'll ever have to do.

One of them thinks she isn't enough. The other thinks she's too much. Neither of them has ever been brave enough to say the honest thing out loud… and Ali's lease runs out in November.

Tropes:

• Fake dating

• CEO x Artist

• Black cat x golden retriever

• Age gap

• Forced proximity

• Wedding season 

• Meddling family

• Mutual pining

• Friends-with-benefits to Lovers

• Found family

• Hurt/Comfort

• Tattoos

• The ex-fiancée is the worst

• Light angst

• Fluff

• Dual POV

• HEA

Themes:

• Learning to be vulnerable again

• Making peace with imperfection

• Family expectations

• Finding a place to put down roots

• Love after heartbreak

Content Warnings:

• Explicit sexual content

• Depiction of OCD, depression, and anxiety, including intrusive thoughts, panic, and mentions of self-harm

• Past parental loss and grief

• Alcohol consumption

• Previous emotional abuse/manipulation (off page)

• Emotional confrontation

• Ex-fiancée is a narcissist 

• Sexual contact while a character is intoxicated and unable to consent (referenced, off page)

• Emotionally and sexually coercive relationship involving a significant age and power imbalance (largely referenced with one witnessed on-page scene of verbal abuse and manipulation)

Book Bundles

PRE-ORDER: Book Bundle - The Usual
$35.00

Charlotte Davenport built an empire on discipline and control, and at thirty-six, she isn't about to let anything as inconvenient as feelings undo it. Ali McCarthy doesn't stay anywhere long. Six cities, ten years, one cat, and zero regrets.

PRE-ORDER: ships by December 1, 2026. Payment is taken now; your bundle is made and shipped after the pre-order window closes November 13th.

What's inside:

  • Signed paperback of Coffee Eyes and Little White Lies

  • Charlotte’s Blend & Brew loyalty card

  • A clipping from the Daily Tea 

  • A postcard from Willow, who has opinions and something extra to share

  • Coffee Eyes bookmark

  • 2 stickers

Personalization: leave the name you'd like the book signed to at checkout. Changes accepted until November 14th.

About the book: One of them thinks she isn't enough. The other thinks she's too much. Neither of them has ever been brave enough to say the honest thing out loud… and Ali's lease runs out in November.

Ships within the US, shipping included. Signed by me, packed by me, and if it arrives damaged, email me and I'll make it right.

PRE-ORDER: Book Bundle - The Special
$45.00

Charlotte Davenport built an empire on discipline and control, and at thirty-six, she isn't about to let anything as inconvenient as feelings undo it. Ali McCarthy doesn't stay anywhere long. Six cities, ten years, one cat, and zero regrets.

PRE-ORDER: ships by December 1, 2026. Payment is taken now; your bundle is made and shipped after the pre-order window closes November 13th.

Everything in The Usual, plus:

  • Willow's paw pin: enamel, in lesbian pride colors. (When Ali painted Charlotte, Willow got into the paint and left her opinion across the apartment floor.)

  • SFW art print, drawn by me

  • 3 stickers instead of 2

Full contents: signed paperback · Blend & Brew loyalty card · Daily Tea clipping · postcard from Willow · bookmark · paw pin · sfw art print · 3 stickers

Personalization: leave the name you'd like the book signed to at checkout.

About the book: One of them thinks she isn't enough. The other thinks she's too much. Neither of them has ever been brave enough to say the honest thing out loud… and Ali's lease runs out in November.

Ships within the US, shipping included. Signed by me, packed by me, and if it arrives damaged, email me and I'll make it right.

PRE-ORDER: Book Bundle - The Secret Menu
$85.00

Charlotte Davenport built an empire on discipline and control, and at thirty-six, she isn't about to let anything as inconvenient as feelings undo it. Ali McCarthy doesn't stay anywhere long. Six cities, ten years, one cat, and zero regrets.

PRE-ORDER: ships by December 1, 2026. Payment is taken now; your bundle is made and shipped after the pre-order window closes November 13th.

Everything in The Special, plus:

  • NSFW art print

  • A digital bonus scene

  • Mystery item

  • 4 stickers

Full contents: signed paperback · Blend & Brew loyalty card · Daily Tea clipping · postcard from Willow · bookmark · paw pin · sfw art print · nsfw art print · digital bonus scene · mystery item · 4 stickers

By ordering you confirm you're 18 or over.

Personalization: leave the name you'd like the book signed to at checkout.

About the book: One of them thinks she isn't enough. The other thinks she's too much. Neither of them has ever been brave enough to say the honest thing out loud… and Ali's lease runs out in November.

Ships within the US, shipping included. Signed by me, packed by me, and if it arrives damaged, email me and I'll make it right.