The Trouble With Timing : A Christian Romantic Comedy (The Murphy Girls Book 4)

Six years of almost. One coffee shop. One chance to finally get the timing right.

Kate Holloway is at The Filling Station at 6:59 every morning. She doesn’t consider that early. She considers it correct.

So why is there a man in her chair at 8:10?

Kate is a freelance designer who has never stayed anywhere long enough to get a library card. She wears black, orders half a sugar, and has left eleven towns without once being asked to stay. Magnolia Springs is temporary. Everything is temporary. That’s the arrangement.

Then someone leaves a notebook in her chair.

Adam Prescott is an architect who folds his sleeves the same two folds every day and has occupied the same corner table since the leaves came back. He arrives at 8:10. Kate leaves at 8:05.

For months, they’ve been missing each other by five minutes in a coffee shop the size of a filling station, which is exactly what it used to be.

But it turns out they’ve been missing each other for six years.

The same city. The same job. The same year. Never once in the same room.

Now Kate has an offer three hundred miles away, a lifetime habit of running, and a faith she’s only just beginning to reach for. Adam has a town he built himself back into and no intention of chasing someone who has already decided to leave.

They’ve spent six years arriving ten minutes apart.

But maybe this time, the timing isn’t wrong.

Maybe this time, Kate has to decide whether she can finally stop running—and whether she’s willing to stay long enough to find out what she’s been missing.

The Trouble With Timing is a Christian romantic comedy and the fourth book in The Murphy Girls series—clean and Christ-centered, with a happily-ever-after and no cliffhanger.