Love Walked In
A Novel
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
A sunshiny American bookstore whisperer clashes with the grumpy British owner of the shop she’s trying to save in this winning opposites-attract romance for book lovers.
He has a struggling bookshop. She has a knack for bringing bookstores back to life. As soon as she walks into his store, all bets are off…
Mari Cole’s whole life is her dream job: rescuing and revitalizing indie bookstores. Friendship? Love? No thanks. After a hard childhood, she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone. Besides, books have never let Mari down the way people have. Then she gets the offer of a lifetime: rescuing Ross & Co. Once the most prestigious independent booksellers in London, the store is a shadow of its former self and needs an expert outsider to turn things around. But the offer turns out to be a double-edged sword: Leo Ross, the store's new owner, is as cold and hostile as the British winter.
For as long as he can remember, Leo Ross has known his future is becoming the next generation to run Ross and Co. He’s sacrificed almost everything he cares about, but the bookshop is still failing on his watch, and now there's an obnoxiously cheerful American woman convinced that she's going to magically make everything better. Leo’s life is difficult and messy enough as it is, and he doesn’t want her help.
When Mari and Leo are forced to work closely together to bring the store back to life, Leo's icy surface thaws to reveal the passionate man underneath. As winter gives way to the possibility of new beginnings, Mari begins to see that true love could be even better in real life than in the pages of a book. Can they put their pasts aside and learn to let love in?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The grumpy/sunshine trope animates this charming rom-com from Chamberlain (The Slowest Burn). Orphaned Mari Cole found refuge from her rough childhood in books, leading her to her dream career in adulthood: consulting with and revitalizing independent bookshops. When Mari's mentor, the owner of a California bookstore, asks her to fly to London to help an old friend save his struggling shop, she leaps at the chance. Leo Ross dreamed of being an artist but has been groomed his entire life to take over Ross & Co., one of Britain's best-known bookstores. When his grandfather dies unexpectedly, Leo's destiny comes calling and he finds himself in way over his head. While Leo and Mari initially clash over how to manage the shop, opposites soon attract and they become inseparable—until a brace of bombshell family secrets rock their worlds. Readers will fall in love with Mari and Leo as Chamberlain skillfully reveals their hidden depths and believable vulnerabilities. The result is a multilayered love story that hits all the right notes.
