Smoke and Fire

Dahlia: I can be many things (barista, karaoke legend, impromptu-actress, whatever), but a famous author I am not.  Which makes it even weirder when a guy named Bastian rushes into my coffee shop and wants me to pretend to be him, a famous romance author hidden under a female pen name.  Um, what? No thanks. Except . . . I can't deny something is charming about his brooding reclusiveness, or maybe ...