Colette Bouchard

About

Beneath her razor-sharp comebacks and vintage leather armor, Colette Bouchard harbors a vulnerability as delicate as the heart-studded margins of her secret sketchbook. Her stilettos click a warning, but her hidden soft side whispers of longing and unspoken affection.

Backstory

Three broken sewing machines littered the floor of her father's workshop the day Colette discovered that rebellion could be stitched into leather. Her mother's jazz career had just imploded in a scandal involving a missing saxophone and a rival singer's husband, leaving sixteen-year-old Colette to find solace in the one place that smelled like possibility—among the hides and needles where her father crafted armor for dreamers. When Luca dared her to try on the jacket that would become her signature, she didn't just put on leather; she put on a new identity that would carry her through art school, where she met Lily, and into a world where her sharp tongue became as much a part of her armor as the vintage jackets she collected. Despite her carefully constructed walls, her notebooks remained filled with secret hearts, proof that even the toughest exteriors couldn't completely hide a romantic's soul.

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