Spotlight and Giveaway: Love Walked In

Today we are excited to feature Sarah Chamberlain's sophomore novel, Love Walked In. It sounds like an interesting story and who can resist the allure of a London bookshop? Thanks to St. Martin's Press, we have TWO copies to give away!

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?

“My goodness, who would’ve thought a book about tender awkward bookstore lovers could be so damn sexy!? But Sarah Chamberlain’s Love Walked In is the kind of romance that gently surprises you all along the way, with a soft underbelly that will make you sigh with satisfaction and clamor for more of Mari and Leo’s well earned love story.” 

- Ali Rosen, bestselling author of Unlikely Story

“Emotionally intelligent and tender, Sarah Chamberlain’s latest is a poignant ode to bookstores, found family, and the slow, deliberate love that can bloom when you least expect it. Love Walked In feels like a wool blanket and a cup of tea in London winter: cozy, warm, and completely enveloping." 

- Katie Naymon, author of You Between the Lines

Sarah Chamberlain is a writer, editor, and cookbook translator whose articles have appeared in VICE, The Guardian (UK), Food52, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency. When she’s not writing witty, sexy contemporary romance, she enjoys making dinner for her friends and family, watching Cary Grant movies, and setting records as an amateur competitive powerlifter. Originally from Northern California, she lives in London. Visit Sarah at her website and on Instagram.

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Love Walked In (2 copies)

Giveaway ends September 9th at midnight EST.

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