Things We Hide From the Light

Lucy Score’s Things We Hide from the Light (2023), a romance novel set in the fictional northern Virginia town of Knockemout, is the second in an anthology series that begins with Things We Never Got Over (2022). Things We Hide from the Light focuses on Nash Morgan, the town’s police chief, who struggles to recover emotionally and psychologically from the near-fatal shooting recounted in the series’ first book. Only when Nash falls for Lina, an insurance investigator with a specialty in recovering stolen property who is sent to Knockemout in connection with the car theft ring that nearly got him killed, does Nash begin to recover. Lina, in turn, feels the same urgent pull toward Nash, but such attractions are a risk she has always avoided.

The novel chronicles the interplay of these two wounded people, who seem obviously wrong for each other at first, as they move from their incendiary passion to the healing power of love and trust. Given Score’s international fan base and her presence on social media, Things We Hide from the Light immediately topped both The New York Times and Amazon best-seller lists. Although the novel follows several traditional romance novel tropes, with its emphasis on mismatched lovers uniting, Things We Hide from the Light also transcends

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