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Blind Date with a Book

Blind Date with a Book

$24.95 USD
$24.95 USD
Sale Available at Locker 61!
    • Workplace rivals, one promotion
    • Forced proximity on a boat
    • Grand gesture ending
    • Grumpy-sunshine workplace romance
    • Sports meets classical music
    • Boarding school
    • Advice column heroine
    • Unraveling the perfect life
    • Second chance romance
    • Ultra wealthy family saga
    • Social climber scheme
    • Influencer celebrity culture
    • Quirky community
    • Fresh start
    • Slow burn
    • Goodreads Rating 3.70
    • Cozy autumn atmosphere
    • Found purpose through business
    • Found family
    • Second chance romance
    • Magical realism
    • Multigenerational sisterhood
    • Royal / celebrity romance
    • Protective hero
    • Ambitious heroine
    • Tattooed golden retriever hero
    • Forced proximity w/ neighboring cottages
    • Meddling elderly matchmakers
    • Reality TV heiress
    • Grumpy meets sunshine
    • Constant banter
    • Art world atmosphere
    • Opposites attract
    • Fish out of water heiress
    • Dating app misadventures
    • Tight knit friend group
    • Wedding season dread
    • Theatre world setting
    • Secret relationship
    • Witty banter
    • Goodreads Rating 3.61
    • Enemies to lovers
    • Summer fling w/ witty banter
    • Small lakeside town
    • Goodreads Rating 3.86
    • Mistaken identity
    • Comedic chaos
    • Scottish setting
    • Goodreads Rating 3.54
    • Celebrity romance
    • Rom-com chaos energy
    • Ride-or-die friend
    • Goodreads Rating 3.54
    • Firefighter hero
    • Grown-ups who actually talk
    • Fake dating / unwanted ex
    • Realty cooking competition
    • Athlete hero with a soft heart,
    • Second chance romance
    • Second chance romance
    • Banter heavy
    • A dog with main character energy
    • Beach town summer
    • Second chance romance
    • Reckless together
    • Spicy!
    • Goodreads Rating 3.51
    • Contemporary paranormal
    • Banter heavy romance
    • Enemies to lovers
    • Magical realism
    • Forced proximity
    • Botanical magic
    • Low spice
    • Goodreads Rating 3.71
    • Female dating sapphic romance
    • Festival setting
    • Herbalism and self care shop
    • Unconventional heroine
    • Sharp social comedy
    • Family chaos
    • Goodreads Rating 4.17
    • Mother fighting for her child
    • Grumpy / determined dynamic
    • Slow burn
    • Goodreads Rating 3.18
    • Witty banter
    • Reluctant hero
    • Swoony slowburn
    • Spicy!
    • Goodreads Rating 3.97
    • Gothic vampire fantasy
    • Castlevania vibes
    • Polyamourous romance
    • LGBTQ+ MM
    • Goodreads Rating 3.92
    • Sapphic paranormal romance
    • Power training narrative
    • Murder mystery subplot
    • 1920's expatriates
    • Forbidden magic
    • Dark fairy tale energy
    • LGBTQ+ FF
    • Goodreads rating 3.40
    • Roommates with history
    • Wedding season chaos
    • Cozy humor
    • LGBTQ (FF Spicy!)
    • Goodreads Rating 3.95
    • Cozy found family
    • Diversity & acceptance
    • Interspecies relationships
    • LGBTQ+
    • Goodreads Rating 4.16
    • Royal duty meets heart
    • Sci-Fi court intrigue
    • Save the empire!
    • LGBTQ (MM)
    • Goodreads Rating 3.98
    • Cold war espionage
    • Bookshop setting
    • Quiet slow burn romance
    • Multi-generational southern saga
    • Post WWII setting
    • Soldiers homecoming
    • The American dream vs. reality
    • Reliance at any cost
    • Dust bowl
    • Goodreads Rating 4.30
    • Espionage and surveillance
    • Unlikely female friendship
    • Cold War tension
    • Goodreads Rating 3.75
    • Secrets in paradise
    • Golden age detective
    • Hidden in plain sight
    • Goodreads Rating 3.85
    • Monastery in decline
    • Closed circle murder mystery
    • Outsider investigator
    • Viking saga
    • Fake & prophecy
    • Brothers at war
    • Goodreads rating 3.74
    • Coming of age
    • Mixed race identity
    • Becoming herself
    • Goodreads rating 3.62
    • Victorian mystery
    • Feminist retelling
    • Slow-burn romance
    • Goodreads Rating 3.87
    • Multi-generational family saga
    • Non-linear timeline
    • Food as love & legacy
    • Goodreads Rating 3.61
    • Northern California wilderness
    • Harrowing and hopeful
    • Survival story
    • Goodreads Rating 3.59
    • Supernatural inheritance
    • Hidden double life
    • Edwardian gothic
    • Intergenerational family saga
    • Magical realism
    • Inherited gift
    • Treasure hunting gone sideways
    • Found family crew
    • One last job
    • Multi-POV braided saga
    • Queens on unsteady thrones
    • Blood magic with a price
    • Gothic Victorian
    • Morally grey heroine
    • Wishes with consequences
    • Goodreads Rating 3.12
    • Witches and found sisterhood
    • Sapphic romance
    • Scottish folklore
    • Goodreads Rating 3.48
    • Gothic secondary world
    • Fractured identity
    • Murder mystery in dark court
    • Goodreads Rating 3.51
    • Dark Fairy Tale retelling
    • Old world magic
    • German romanticism
    • Goodreads Rating 3.14
    • Underdog pilot
    • Alien thread overhead
    • Found family in flight school
    • Goodreads Rating 4.46
    • Alien abductions
    • Cozy suburbia meets cosmic stakes
    • Missing person returns
    • Near future political thriller
    • Globe hopping spycraft
    • Election countdown
    • 1920's Golden Age mystery
    • Country house party
    • Closed circle, no escape
    • Sheep detectives
    • Cozy Irish village atmosphere
    • Found flock
    • Amateur sleuth
    • Small town gossip
    • Cold case cozy mystery
    • Culinary sleuth
    • Wedding chaos subplot
    • Amateur detective
    • Goodreads Rating 3.67
    • English village mystery,
    • Eccentric heiress
    • Cozy whodunnit
    • Goodreads Rating 3.79
    • Cold war era conspiracy
    • Cozy village with a dark edge
    • Boy who cried wolf
    • Japanese crime fiction
    • Cold case reopened
    • Impossible seeming puzzle
    • Literary scavenger hunt
    • Brooding tutor with witty banter
    • Books within books
    • Courtroom drama
    • Everyone has a secret
    • Quiet devastating reveals
    • Wisecracking detective
    • Undercover investigation
    • Rekindled romance
    • Goodreads Rating 3.76
    • Golden Age Hollywood
    • Female spy protagonist
    • Old flame complication
    • Goodreads Rating 3.67
    • Animal narrator detecive
    • Homeward bound journey
    • Found family
    • Goodreads Rating 3.96
    • Isolated grand house
    • Mail order bride
    • Everyone is lying
    • Country house whodunit
    • Literary clues and anagrams
    • Mystery within a mystery
    • A con with too many players
    • Outside in a closed village
    • Rural Irish noir
    • Art world rivalries
    • Old friends old grudges
    • A party that ends badly
    • Con artist protagonist
    • Unreliable everything & creeping dread
    • Shadowy Manhattan
    • Isolated house thriller
    • Unreliable memory
    • Snowbound closed circle
    • Closed space car thriller
    • Single night race against time
    • Movie obsessed narrator
    • Greek mythology motifs
    • Secret inner circle
    • Charismatic mentor
    • Domestic psychological thriller
    • Isolated setting suspense
    • Dangerous romance
    • Suburban domestic suspense
    • Alternating narrators
    • Short chapters & fast burn
    • Domestic thriller in a lab coat
    • Near future speculative
    • Closing & identity
    • Family massacre cold case
    • Dual timeline/unreliable narrator
    • Twisty escalating reveal
    • Snowbound isolation
    • Can't trust anyone
    • Psycho vibes
    • Goodreads Rating 3.90
    • Locked room mystery
    • Unreliable narrators
    • Everyone's a suspect
    • Goodreads Rating 3.64
    • Ticking clock thriller
    • Tech noir atmosphere
    • National security stakes
    • Goodreads Rating 3.12
    • Stage magic and illusion
    • Cursed lost film
    • Fairy tale logic
    • Ticking 48 hour clock
    • Viral media frenzy
    • Teens on the run
    • The illustration of a perfect world
    • Forbidden poetry & lost art
    • Love triangle
    • Dream walking / forbidden door
    • Dark academia
    • Court built on desire
    • Defiant heroine in an asylum setting
    • Escape plotting
    • Snarky first person voice
    • Quest for an artifact
    • Hidden identity discovery
    • Chosen one
    • Fairy tale retelling
    • Werewolf lore,
    • Foridden forest
    • Shadow puppet theater
    • War closing in
    • Mixed format storytelling
    • Hidden magical world
    • Old house secrets
    • Found family
    • YA (Young Adult)
    • Goodreads Rating 3.92
    • WWI Trenches
    • Hereditary curse
    • Supernatural gothic horror
    • Found family
    • Surveillance state
    • Rebel hideout
    • YA (Young Adult)
    • Goodreads Rating 3.84
    • Chosen candidate program
    • Climate dystopia
    • Space mission prep
    • YA (Young Adult)
    • Goodreads Rating 3.83

    A Blind Date with a Book is a unique way to discover stories you might never have picked up on your own. Each book is hidden from view and instead comes with a short list of hints - genre, tropes, and vibes - to spark your curiosity. Unwrapping your pick feels like opening a present, with a whole new adventure waiting inside.

    Each Blind Date with a Book is personally chosen and approved by me, featuring a gently used or like-new thrifted book. Some may be brand new, but all are in excellent, giftable condition. Every book is wrapped and decorated with ephemera I've collected, including vintage magazine clippings, old book cutouts, and fun stickers, adding extra clues about the story inside. Tucked alongside are a few cozy surprises to make the unwrapping feel like an experience all on its own.

    I am always working to include books from all different genres, so whether you're in the mood for something heartwarming, haunting, hilarious, or high-stakes. From swoony romances to gripping thrillers to cozy contemporary reads, there's something for every adult reader.

    Perfect for gifting to a book lover in your life, or of course for keeping all to yourself - you deserve it!

    I've discounted shipping just for these. While heavier packages often cost $8–$12 to send, I've marked these at my small-item shipping rate (around $5) to help keep shopping easy and affordable.

    Where to Find These:

    Select titles are now available to browse and buy in person at Locker 61 in Poulsbo, WA! If you spot one you love in store, you're welcome to purchase it there, or order it online anytime through www.locker61.com. All other inventory is available exclusively through my website - ready to ship out, or available for local pickup in East Bremerton, WA.

    How to Shop:

    Use the dropdown options to browse our current selection. You'll see their one word teaser and the main genre.

    Once you click on an option you'll see the photo of that particular wrapped book, on the tag you'll see a few keyword clues, each book gets it's own new fake title as well. 

    Books ship out the next business day and shipping discounts are given for multiple books in the same order. If you want to pickup locally in Bremerton, WA, choose the pickup option and the shipping fee will be waived. Keep an eye out for fun promos in the future!

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