Read Me Slow — Charish Reid

She writes fantasies. He turns fear into sound. Neither expected desire to be this loud.Maya Brooks writes romance for a living but she keeps her own life strictly business. At forty-five, she's single, and has no intention of mixing pleasure with work… until her narrators bail weeks before her hottest book's release.Enter Theo Ward. Horror podcaster. Her little brother's best friend. And thirty-years-old.He's back in town and all grown up, with a voice that could ruin lives. When Theo offers to record a chapter just as a favor, Maya agrees with every intention of staying in control. But the moment they hit record, the chemistry in the booth becomes combustible.As their secret sessions spiral into something much more physical, a viral audio clip turns Theo into the internet's new obsession. Suddenly, he's not just Maya's narrator, he's Scare Daddy, and the world wants more of him. But when fame comes with hungry eyes and loose lips—reputations crack, trust fractures, and Maya's carefully built boundaries come crashing down.Now she must decide: protect her pride, or fight for the man who makes her feel truly heard?A high-heat contemporary novella about intimacy, vulnerability, and what it really means to be seen—Read Me Slow is for anyone who's ever been undone by a voice they couldn't forget.