Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection April 10, 2024: Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Here’s my Can’t-Wait Wednesday Selection for April 10, 2024: Love at First Book by Jenn McKinlay

Publishes: May 14, 2024, by Berkley

Length: 368 pages

Genre: Romance 

Why I’m Excited:

I think I’ve said this before, but I will read anything Jenn McKinlay writes. I absolutely adored last year’s spring romance title Summer Reading and the description of this newest title sounds right up my alley. I preordered a copy and am looking forward to a happy treat in the mail!

From the Publisher:

When a librarian moves to a quaint Irish village where her favorite novelist lives, the last thing she expects is to fall for the author’s prickly son… until their story becomes one for the books, from the New York Times bestselling author of Summer Reading .

Emily Allen, a librarian on Martha’s Vineyard, has always dreamed of a life of travel and adventure. So when her favorite author, Siobhan Riordan, offers her a job in the Emerald Isle, Emily jumps at the opportunity. After all, Siobhan’s novels got Em through some of the darkest days of her existence.

Helping Siobhan write the final book in her acclaimed series—after a ten-year hiatus due to a scorching case of writer’s block—is a dream come true for Emily. If only she didn’t have to deal with Siobhan’s son, Kieran Murphy. He manages Siobhan’s bookstore, and the grouchy bookworm clearly doesn’t want Em around.

When Siobhan’s health takes a bad turn, she’s more determined than ever to finish her novel, while Kieran tries every trick in the book to get his mother to rest. Thrown into the role of peacemaker, Emily begins to see that Kieran’s heart is in the right place. Torn between helping Siobhan find closure with her series and her own growing feelings for the mercurial Irishman, Emily will have to decide if she’s truly ready to turn a new page and figure out what lies in the next chapter.



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    I was just considering Summer Reading and then I see your post about her upcoming romance. Of course I want to read that one too! I haven’t read a lot by Jenn McKinlay, but I have tried both her mysteries and romance and enjoy both. I hope you enjoy Love At First Book when you read it, Sarah!

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