She trusts numbers, and research, and science, and has absolutely no time for emotions.
Between then and when our story begins, she landed a job in the research lab of the FBI. Simone has absolutely no idea why Roscoe ghosted her all those years ago. His veterinary practice in Nashville is going well, he routinely comes home to Green Valley to see his siblings and their partners, and if he can just avoid Simone completely he’ll be fine. Roscoe has an eidetic memory and has crafted his life around not creating more memories since he can’t handle the ones he already has. Not because of the way that traumatic memories haunt the best of us, but because that he actually cannot. Roscoe desperately wishes he could forget that conversation, but he can’t. He confessed his love to her back in high school, and her response was less than awesome. Roscoe, we learn quickly, makes himself scarce during those weekends because he has been in love with Simone since forever and cannot handle being around her since he knows his feelings are not reciprocated. Strange Beard is a friends-to-lovers tale that features Roscoe Winston and Simone Payton, childhood best friends who haven’t been in contact since high school but are forced back into proximity when Simone starts making regular trips to their hometown. Reid does and it makes it such a delight to fall back into her stories. No one has the same cadence or character voices that Ms. Penny Reid is one of those authors with such a distinct style that you know immediately you are reading one of her books.
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