For public library clerk Diane Anderson, reading romance novels and living vicariously is far easier than attracting a flesh-and-blood man of her own. She'd love to add some real spice to her life, but it seems she's too voluptuous in the wrong places to attract the kind of black man her mama requires as a son-in-law...and just exotic enough to attract the kind of white man Mama forbids. But there's something about that lost-looking guy who comes wandering into the library one January afternoon. And when he reveals that Diane is his muse, well, she can't help being intrigued... After months spent mourning a personal tragedy, novelist Jack Browning is struggling to get back to work. Under pressure by his editor to write his second novel, Jack decides to hit the library for ideas. The clerk who helps him is smart and sassy—not to mention curvy in all the right places. He finds himself thinking of Diane as he creates the heroine of his book. Now, against all odds, she's knocking down the wall he'd built around himself, becoming the inspiration for his art...and maybe even for his life...