Kiss Me Before Midnight

Seven years was supposed to be enough time to forget him.

Bruno returns to his small hometown for one reason: his mother's health. He doesn't plan to stay long. He definitely doesn't plan to end up in Leandro Menezes's kitchen, making Christmas cookies side by side like the last seven years never happened.

They were never friends. They were never enemies either. That's the problem.

Leandro isn't who Bruno remembers — or maybe he is, and that's worse. There's no hostility left between them, just the quiet weight of everything that was never said, pressing closer with every hour they spend together.

Before midnight, something will have to give.

A slow-burn, small-town romance about the things we carry home — and the courage it takes to finally set them down.