Story Notes

A Quick Heads Up

Knots and Stories includes:

Strong language throughoutExplicit, on-page sexual content between consenting adultsOne physical altercation (a fight scene with a minor injury)A brief, emotionally intense moment of confusion during an intimate scene (a wrong-name moment)Themes of heartbreak, self-doubt, and rebuilding after a breakup

If any of that’s not your thing today, no hard feelings, there are gentler stories waiting for you elsewhere in the catalog.

Summary

Knots and Stories Lila makes owls. Emotional support owls. Breakup owls. The kind of small, handmade magic that helps people survive Mondays and keep going anyway. She's smart, talented, quietly funny, and very good at hiding behind yarn, glasses, and long sleeves. After a brutal breakup, Lila isn't looking for love. She's looking for stability, routine, and maybe a cup of coffee that doesn't taste like craft-fair regret. Then Kris walks into her booth. He's charming, creative, a little bruised by life, and he sees Lila immediately. Not as someone to rescue. Not as a consolation prize. But as a woman worth wanting. Worth choosing. As sparks fly between craft tables and late-night conversations turn into something deeper, Lila has to decide if she's brave enough to step out from behind her work and let herself be seen, desire, fear, vulnerability, and all. Knots and Stories is a contemporary romance about creative communities, second chances, and discovering that being "ordinary" can be the sexiest thing of all. Warm, witty, and emotionally rich, this is a love story stitched together with honesty, laughter, and just a little bit of glitter.

Genre: Romance

Author: 𝒦𝒾𝓇𝒶 𝐿💮𝓇𝓃𝑒

Status: Complete

Chapters: 10

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 18+

This is a sample

Knots and Stories

Knots and Stories

A Craft Fair Romance

Hi, it’s Kira!

Before you dive into Knots and Stories, I wanted to tell you where this one actually came from. Because it’s a pretty good story on its own.

When we first moved to Missouri, I found this little craft fair. Really it was more of an indoor swap meet, but a handful of genuinely great booths were tucked in among the folding tables. I was admiring a truly spectacular wooden porch bear (paws raised, holding a sign that said “Have a Beary Nice Day,” very serious craftsmanship) when I passed two girls at the next booth over. One of them, maybe nineteen or twenty, was cute. Like, really cute. Her friend sat beside her, and they were talking low and giggling in that way that makes you slow your steps just a little.

I never did find out who Bo actually was. From what I could piece together out of half a conversation, he worked the smoothie counter somewhere in that same swap meet, and our very cute little booth girl had thought about him. A lot. In detail. There was a whole fantasy involving smoothies, tasting, and a notable lack of clothing that I will not be reconstructing here. I’ll just let that sit with you the way it sat with me the whole drive home.

Because by the time I got home, Lila and Kris had basically already introduced themselves. Lila originally sold porch bears and wind chimes, same as the real booth, but I switched her over to macrame owls almost right away. It felt like a better way to tell her story, something she could actually pour her moods into, stitch by stitch. You’ll see what I mean when you meet her.

Small confession: this book almost went out under a different name. It was originally called A Fair to Remember. Cute, right? A little too cute, honestly, so I let it go. Knots and Stories fits her better anyway.

I hope you fall for Lila and Kris the way I did, somewhere between the wind chimes and the smoothie counter.

Oh, and one more thing. If you fall for Lila and Kris even half as much as I did, a review would mean the world to me. Indie publishing runs almost entirely on word of mouth, and a few honest sentences from you do more for this girl than you’d probably guess.

So... on to Knots and Stories. I hope you love it as much as I do.

Love,

Kira