Romance & Contemporary Relationships
Fifteen years ago, two damaged, brilliant teenagers spent one incandescent week together and then vanished from each other's lives - burying their memories, and each other, in the fiction they went on to write.
Tia Williams's Seven Days in June reunites them as adults: Eva, a single mother and bestselling paranormal-romance author managing chronic illness, and Shane, a celebrated, newly sober literary novelist, who collide at a Brooklyn literary event and reignite everything.
Williams braids a swoony, grown-up second-chance romance with weightier material - addiction, chronic pain, single motherhood, the inheritance of trauma - without ever sacrificing heat or wit. The result is a romance with real literary texture, funny and sexy and unafraid of hard feelings, anchored by two Black artists rendered with depth and specificity. A Reese's Book Club pick and breakout bestseller, it helped expand what mainstream romance looks like.
For readers who want passion with substance - a love story that takes its people seriously - it is a standout.
The book
Eva Mercy, a single mother and bestselling erotica author, and Shane Hall, a reclusive literary novelist, are thrown together at a Brooklyn event, reigniting a secret, intense week they shared as teenagers fifteen years earlier.
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