The Cobbler and His Elves

My grandfather taught me everything about fixing shoes, but his lessons in cobbling never prepared me to keep his shop alive during the Depression. Now I’m down to a handful of customers, watching his legacy slip away one day at a time.
Then the Sterling brothers strutted in. Two wealthy alphas who planted their gleaming shoe store across the street, flaunting their imported leather and factory-made footwear while I struggle to make ends meet.
When a shipment of rare leather vanishes from Thompson’s Tannery, our sleepy town’s veneer of respectability cracks. Someone’s trying to frame me for the theft, and those two insufferable alphas seem determined to protect me—whether I want their help or not.
Truth is, I’m not sure I can trust them. Or myself, when I’m near them. But in a town overrun with secrets and lies, trusting two alphas with my heart might be the deadliest gamble of all.

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