A novel love story / Ashley Poston.
"Eileen Merriweather knows a thing or two about romance. As a professor of literature, she teaches prestigious courses on history's greatest romantics, but one week out of the year she abandons her dusty textbooks and makes a pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley with her best friend Pru to meet their Super Smutty Book Club in person, and celebrate the romance series that brought them together - Quixotic Falls. It's a week of wine and happily-ever-afters. Or it's supposed to be. Pru bails at the last minute, and Elsy winds up lost in Hudson Valley - alone. In a thunderstorm. When she takes shelter in a bookstore, she immediately gets on the bad side of its grumpy (and infuriatingly sexy) owner, and finds herself in a quaint town that feels like it's right out of a book... Because it is. Eloraton can't be real, and yet... she's here. The town is everything she imagined from her favorite series, where the candy store's honey taffy is always sweet, and the local bar's burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It's perfect. A place built on meet-cutes and storybook endings. Except, there's something off in Eloraton. Because nothing changes, nothing moves, trapped in the last place the late author of Quixotic Falls left them. Which must be why Elsy is here: to find an ending to this last story, the one the author never finished. The only problem? The bookstore owner never wants the story to end, and he might be the one person who can help her imagine this final happily-ever-after. And maybe find one for herself"--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593640975(trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 368 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : Berkley Romance, 2024.
- Copyright: 2024
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes a reader's guide with discussion questions. |
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Subject: | Literature teachers > Fiction. Bookstore owners > Fiction. Man-woman relationships > Fiction. |
Genre: | Romance fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort St. James Public Library.
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- Baker & Taylor
When her car breaks down traveling to her annual book club retreat, a superfan of romance novels finds herself stranded in the quaint, but fictional town of Eloraton, the site of her favorite series, looking for her own story. Simultaneous. - Baker & Taylor
"Eileen Merriweather knows a thing or two about romance. As a professor of literature, she teaches prestigious courses on history's greatest romantics, but one week out of the year she abandons her dusty textbooks and makes a pilgrimage to the Hudson Valley with her best friend Pru to meet their Super Smutty Book Club in person, and celebrate the romance series that brought them together - Quixotic Falls. It's a week of wine and happily-ever-afters. Or it's supposed to be. Pru bails at the last minute, and Elsy winds up lost in Hudson Valley - alone. In a thunderstorm. When she takes shelter in a bookstore, she immediately gets on the bad side of its grumpy (and infuriatingly sexy) owner, and finds herself in a quaint town that feels like it's right out of a book... Because it is. Eloraton can't be real, and yet... she's here. The town is everything she imagined from her favorite series, where the candy store's honey taffy is always sweet, and the local bar's burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It's perfect. A place built on meet-cutes and storybook endings. Except, there's something off in Eloraton. Because nothing changes, nothing moves, trapped in the last place the late author of Quixotic Falls left them. Which must be why Elsy is here: to find an ending to this last story, the one the author never finished. The only problem? The bookstore owner never wants the story to end, and he might be the one person who can help her imagine this final happily-ever-after. And maybe find one for herself"-- - Penguin Putnam
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction . . . literally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.
Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men donât leave you at the altar. She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why sheâs so set on going her annual book club retreat this yearâshe needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gesturesâno matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like itâs right out of a novel . . .
Because it is.
This place canât be real, and yet… sheâs here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy storeâs honey taffy is always sweet, the local barâs burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. Itâs perfectâand perfectly frozen, trapped in the late authorâs last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure thatâs why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.
Except there is a character in Eloraton that she canât placeâa grumpy bookstore owner with mint-green eyes, an irritatingly sexy mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book.
Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the townâs happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.