Logic & Litter: a Grumpy/sunshine Age-gap Romance

It takes a Category Three hurricane to bring Kate Johnson out of her shell.Kate doesn’t need a hero; she needs a new van and a miracle to keep her cat rescue afloat. She’s content in her prickly independence until Dean, her much younger, overly-earnest neighbor, starts meddling in her business. He has a plan for everything, while Kate is just trying to survive the next litter box change.But when the “Purricane of 2025” hits, the stakes change from business to survival.As the floodwaters rise, Dean pulls off the impossible: a daring rescue of thirty-seven cats, one mop-bucket at a time. Now hunkered down in Dean’s pristine “coder’s sanctuary” with three dozen agitated felines, Kate is seeing a new side of the man she dismissed as just a “young tech bro”. Between shared mugs of tea and floor-to-ceiling kittens, the friction between them sparks into something neither expectedCan a guarded cat lady and a devoted techie rebuild a life from the wreckage, or was their connection just a storm that’s destined to pass?A Grumpy/Sunshine, Reverse Age-gap romance covered in fur.