The Puccini Kiss, (Paperback)

<p>On a Seattle-bound flight, Cal Stevens expects anonymity-another airport, another rehearsal, another night of singing feelings he'd rather keep buried. Instead, he meets Dot Frazier, a middle-school principal with a razor tongue, a fierce sense of order, and absolutely no patience for him.</p><p>Dot runs a small town middle school like a dam holding back a flood: parents with agendas, a community that watches too closely, and a school musical (Cinderella) that becomes a referendum on who belongs. Cal's arrival doesn't help-especially when his talent, his attention, and his calm competence start making him impossible to dismiss.</p><p>Then Dot attends Cal's performance of Puccini's Madame Butterfly and witnesses a staged kiss that rearranges her from the inside out. She tells herself it's just art-just chemistry under stage lights. But the memory won't loosen its grip, and the more her life starts to unravel, the more she finds herself haunted by the question she won't ask out loud: </p><p>What if it wasn't only the opera?</p><p>The Puccini Kiss is a romance about grief and power, small-town scrutiny, and the terrifying prospect of wanting something that might end who you thought you were.</p>

• The Puccini Kiss, (Paperback)
• Author: Independently Published
• ISBN: 9798247249948
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-02-17
• Page Count: 238