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Helena Ariake keeps her life light and portable. New city, new station, new apartment with a balcony she shares with the woman next door. The half-wall between them is just a wall. Until it isn't. Thea Winters doesn't need anyone. She has her routine, her editing career, and a foul-mouthed cockatoo named Polly who considers the entire building his jurisdiction. She's not looking for someone to rearrange her life. But Helena's voice carries over the wall every morning. Thea keeps making two chais instead of one. And the blanket she bought because her neighbor was cold was never just a blanket. When Helena pulls away to protect herself and Thea realizes too late what she's been calling friendship never really was just that, it takes a bird with no filter and a twelve-block walk in pajama shorts to fix what three feet of stucco almost broke. Slow-burn neighbors to lovers. Found family firehouse crew. A cockatoo with a profanity problem. Explicit heat. The chai was never extra. Can be read as a standalone but best read as part of the full series. HEA guaranteed.