Fiction – Romance – Contemporary – Small Town & Rural

RELEASE DATE: 3/3/2026 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

LIMITED TIME DELUXE EDITION

She’s hard to hold onto, but he’s good with his hands…

Prickly, autistic, and shadowed by a scandalous past, Ruth Kabbah will always be Ravenswood’s black sheep. It’s a lonely life, but at least it’s safe until Evan Miller comes to town.

Calm, confident, and instantly accepted by their small English town, Evan is Ruth’s opposite in every wayyet he meets her suspicion with a smile, handles her awkwardness with ease, and watches her with a hunger that threatens to tear down her all her defenses.

The gossips want to know how she’s bewitched him. Ruth just wants to know when he’ll get bored and leave. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned, it’s that girls like her don’t get happily ever afters.

But when a monster from Ruth’s past comes back to haunt her, she’s forced to make a choice: should she trust Evan completely? Or is her heart safest alone?

AUTHOR BIO:

Talia Hibbert is an award-winning, New York Times and internationally bestselling author of more than fifteen romance novels and novellas. She lives in a small English town in Nottinghamshire, reluctantly sharing bookshelf space with her childhood sweetheart and their dog, Pebbles, who is an avid reader.

“Thoughtful, perceptive, and absolutely stunning with Hibbert’s distinct point of view,A Girl Like Heris one of those romance novels that reminds us why we love to read in the genre. Ruth and Evan are so vulnerable, and their dynamic cracked my chest wide open. Talia Hibbert is one of my favorite authors.” —Lyla Sage, #1New York Timesbestselling author