[Tender Hearts Pet Clinic 06] • The Masked Lovebird

The Casanova costume his bosses at the clinic picked out for the costume ball does nothing to conceal Devon Ainslee’s limp from a devastating football injury. The last thing he wants is to go to a party. Sure, it’s for a good cause—animal rescue—but he hates parties. Hates anything that reminds him what he used to be, what he can never be again. He’s mostly satisfied with his solitary life as janitor at the Tender Hearts Pet Clinic. Satisfied going home every night to his six masked lovebirds. Until he spots Cinderella across the room.

Fiona Michaels feels pretty in the Cinderella costume. The half-mask covers most of the scar from the car accident last year. In the costume, she can be someone else.

When Casanova steps on her toe, she falls in more ways than one. But soon the clock will strike twelve and the masks will be removed. Surely, this wide-shouldered stranger will run for the hills when he sees her face.

Can two people, wounded inside and out, forget their pasts and find love?