

By night, she puts her steamier side on paper under her pen name: Brie. By day, she works for the family property development business. Jane Breslin works hard to keep her professional and personal lives neatly separated.


She’s struck up a flirty online friendship with lesbian romance author Brie, and what could be more romantic than falling in love with her favorite author? The only thing missing is her own real-life romance like the ones she loves to read about, and Rosie has an idea of who she might like to sweep her off her feet. And ever since she took over her mother’s beloved Manhattan bookstore, they’ve become her home too. (Dec.From award-winning author Rachel Lacey comes a playful romance about a Manhattan bookstore owner and a reclusive author who love to hate-and hate to love-each other.īooks are Rosie Taft’s life. The result isn’t particularly memorable, but it’s a quick story perfect for a cozy night in. Their mutual attraction is strong, but can they separate business from pleasure to make a relationship work? Lacey rounds out the romance with a lively cast of friends and family, and a wintry backdrop. Meanwhile, she gets the opportunity to meet Brie IRL for the first time-and she’s shocked to discover that Brie and Jane are one and the same, as Jane uses a pen name to hide her writing from her parents. In a desperate attempt to save the shop, she invites Jane Breslin of Breslin Property Development to come see the community she’s built. Then she receives notice that the store’s landlords will not be renewing its lease, evicting it from the space that holds so many memories of Rosie’s late mother.

Rosie Taft is content with her life as the owner of a Manhattan bookstore, even if she gets most of her romance from novels and an online flirtation with her favorite lesbian romance author, the reclusive, one-named Brie. Lacey ( Come Away with Me) kicks off her Love in the City series with a sweet and mild romance between a bookstore owner and her favorite author.
