Last Call at the Lost & Found Kindle Edition

Maya Brooks is twenty-nine, technically an adult, and currently arguing with a calculator app she mistook for an alarm clock.By day, she works at The Lost & Found, a dive bar that smells of stale hops and bad decisions. By night, she knits scarves she never finishes and holds complex conversations with her mother in the quiet of her living room conversations that are decidedly one-sided. Maya is stuck in the "waiting room" of life, terrified that choosing a path means becoming boring or worse, ending up alone.Under the pressure of her perfectionist sister and the heavy weight of her mother’s chaotic legacy, Maya decides to launch "Operation: Serious Adult." She creates a roster of eligible bachelors to fix her life:The Safe Bet: Hank, a carpenter who communicates in grunts and fixed sinks. He’s stable, reliable, and about as exciting as a load-bearing wall.The Intellectual Project: Julian, a therapist who treats their dates like clinical trials and thinks Maya’s humor is a "maladaptive defense mechanism."Then there’s Leo. Her co-worker, best friend, and partner-in-chaos. Leo, who juggles limes, catches her when she falls (literally), and makes her laugh until it hurts. But Leo is the "unsafe" choice, the one who reminds her too much of the unstable life she’s trying to escape.As Maya oscillates between the man who fixes her plumbing and the man who analyzes her psyche, she begins to realize that "growing up" might not mean settling down. It might mean building something entirely new even if the blueprints are a little messy. Read more