“He respects her too much to date her.”

Cali Raines can keep a resort’s technology running. Managing Rowan Kessler’s emergencies is another matter.

In Cinder Flats, a bicycle-shop owner with an irresistible smile has made Cali his first call whenever something goes wrong. They have been lovers, friends, and collaborators. Now he says he respects her too much to date her—and still needs her help with the inventory.

As favors become obligations and promises of repayment remain promises, Cali begins keeping a different kind of record: what she has given, what she has been told, and what she is willing to give next.

Too Respected to Date opens the DUMPED series with sharp humor, complicated friendship, and a woman learning that being indispensable is not the same as being valued.

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