Mr. Picture Perfect by Daryl Banner

COLE
All I wanted to do was take my grandma to the crafts festival.
Instead, I accidentally save someone’s life
and end up on the front page of the Spruce Press.
That’s not all. The person whose life I save happens to be
my childhood crush Noah Reed.
I’m hardly an example of perfection.
But now they’re organizing a pageant featuring the town’s hottest bachelors
and I’m number one on the list.
But I’m not interested in any other guys.
I’m seeing the bigger picture — with Noah.
And I’d better find a way to tell him soon
before this whole thing gets out of hand.

NOAH
Feelings were never my thing. I don’t understand them.
Even friendships are confusing to me.
The world only makes sense from behind the camera lens,
fitting everything into a perfect frame.
That frame shatters the second Cole Harding becomes my next project.
And he wants me to cover his story.
I can’t make sense out of how I feel.
Nor can I rationalize why the dashing, popular, and “beloved town treasure” Cole
would want to spend so much time around an awkward
and forgettable nobody like me.
I only write the headlines.
I’m not supposed to become one.