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Coles I'm A Fool To Want You: A Romance Against All Odds at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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Manchester, 1946.
Two worlds. One factory. A love that could bring both crashing down.
Charlie St. Patrick has spent ten years with his hands in the guts of machinery, his back bowed, his dreams buried. The foundry took his father. The war of 1939 took his friends. All he has left is a rivet gun, a stubborn streak, and a sketchbook filled with drawings of a city slowly choking on its own smog.
Then she walks in.
Cressida Wellington doesn't belong on the factory floor of Wellington Industrial Works. She's the owner's daughter—an heiress whose inheritance is measured in shillings ground from the bones of men like him. But she's also the only one who's ever looked at Charlie and seen not just a laborer, but an artist. A survivor. A man worth risking everything for.
Their affair is a secret carved out of stolen hours and whispered promises—a fragile flame in the soot-choked dark of post-war Manchester. But secrets don't stay hidden in a city where everyone is watching. The strike is coming. The workers are starving. And when Charlie's people discover who he's been holding in his arms, he'll have to choose:
The community that made him. Or the woman who broke him open.
As the foundry teeters on the edge of ruin and the picket lines harden into battle lines across Ancoats, Cressida must decide how much of her legacy she's willing to burn. Her father's empire is built on blood. Her lover's revolution is built on hope. Loving Charlie means becoming a traitor to her own name—and in a city still scarred by the Blitz, betrayal cuts deeper than any blade.
But some fools don't know when to walk away.
A sweeping romance set against the grit and glory of 1940s Manchester, Fool for You is a story about the price of love, the courage of conviction, and the beautiful madness of choosing someone against all reason.
Because the best love stories don't end with a happily ever after.
They begin with a fool who refused to let go.
Manchester, 1946.
Two worlds. One factory. A love that could bring both crashing down.
Charlie St. Patrick has spent ten years with his hands in the guts of machinery, his back bowed, his dreams buried. The foundry took his father. The war of 1939 took his friends. All he has left is a rivet gun, a stubborn streak, and a sketchbook filled with drawings of a city slowly choking on its own smog.
Then she walks in.
Cressida Wellington doesn't belong on the factory floor of Wellington Industrial Works. She's the owner's daughter—an heiress whose inheritance is measured in shillings ground from the bones of men like him. But she's also the only one who's ever looked at Charlie and seen not just a laborer, but an artist. A survivor. A man worth risking everything for.
Their affair is a secret carved out of stolen hours and whispered promises—a fragile flame in the soot-choked dark of post-war Manchester. But secrets don't stay hidden in a city where everyone is watching. The strike is coming. The workers are starving. And when Charlie's people discover who he's been holding in his arms, he'll have to choose:
The community that made him. Or the woman who broke him open.
As the foundry teeters on the edge of ruin and the picket lines harden into battle lines across Ancoats, Cressida must decide how much of her legacy she's willing to burn. Her father's empire is built on blood. Her lover's revolution is built on hope. Loving Charlie means becoming a traitor to her own name—and in a city still scarred by the Blitz, betrayal cuts deeper than any blade.
But some fools don't know when to walk away.
A sweeping romance set against the grit and glory of 1940s Manchester, Fool for You is a story about the price of love, the courage of conviction, and the beautiful madness of choosing someone against all reason.
Because the best love stories don't end with a happily ever after.
They begin with a fool who refused to let go.
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