Love Rowan Vale

Mara Bellamy became a bestselling author during canned vegetable inventory.At thirty-two, Mara has carefully built a life designed around invisibility. By day, she works for a regional grocery chain in rural New Hampshire. By night, she secretly writes queer romance novels under the pen name Rowan Vale-stories full of brave women and happy endings she's never quite believed could belong to her.Then her latest novel explodes onto the New York Times bestseller list.Within weeks, Mara's face is everywhere. Customers recognize her in produce aisles. Reporters want interviews. And the grocery corporation she's worked for quietly for nearly a decade suddenly decides she's the perfect marketing opportunity: a "small-town success story" they can parade across a national promotional book tour to soften their public image.The woman assigned to manage the tour is Evelyn Mercer-polished, composed, devastatingly competent, and everything Mara instinctively distrusts about corporate life. Evelyn believes in schedules, strategy, and damage control. Mara believes in keeping people at arm's length before they can leave first.Unfortunately, they also can't stop wanting each other.As the tour stretches from crowded bookstores to lonely airport bars, Mara begins to realize Evelyn sees through her defenses with terrifying ease. And Evelyn-who has spent years turning herself into someone impossible to need-finds herself falling for a woman whose entire life has been built around emotional escape routes.When one wine-soaked dinner finally tips their simmering tension into something undeniable, what begins as a temporary affair quickly becomes far more dangerous: the possibility of permanence.But loving someone publicly is very different from writing fictional happy endings in private. As Mara's fame grows and corporate pressure mounts, both women must decide whether they're willing to risk the carefully constructed lives they've built for a relationship neither of them expected-and neither of them can walk away from anymore.LOVE, ROWAN VALE is a contemporary sapphic romance combining the emotional intimacy of Delilah Green Doesn't Care with the warmth and yearning of One Last Stop. It is an emotionally rich story about queer visibility, ordinary adulthood, and learning that love can feel safe instead of temporary.

Pagina's: 318, Paperback, Indy Pub