Seven Days in June
Tia Williams
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
4.24
· Steam/Spice level: 4 of 5
Explicit open door [?]
· 85 ratings · 352 pages · Published: 07 Jun 2022
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry—or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.
Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect—but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered...
With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Daysin June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
A Best Book of 2021: NPR • Kirkus • Marie Claire • PopSugar • New York Public Library • Bustle • Reader’s Digest • Literary Hub
A Best Book of the Summer: Harper’s Bazaar • Oprah Daily • Shondaland • The Los Angeles Times • CBS News • PureWow • Good Housekeeping • BuzzFeed • theSkimm
A Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post • USA Today • Vulture • Goodreads • BookPage • BuzzFeed • Happy Mag
“Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. Tia Williams’s book is a smart, sexy testament to Black joy, to the well of strength from which women draw, and to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I absolutely loved it.”
—JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things
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- contemporary 14
- african-american 11
- single mother 10
- second chances 7
- black mc 7
- angst 6
- friends to lovers 3
- secret relationship 3
- dual pov 3
- tortured hero 3
- third person pov 3
- disabilities & scars 3
- poor heroine 2
- working class heroine 2
- independent heroine 2
- new adult 1
- enemies to lovers 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- bad boys 1
- sweet/gentle hero 1
- tortured heroine 1
- insta-love 1
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- substance abuse 5
- death / grief 4
- past sexual abuse 4
- drug abuse 4
- past child neglect 4
- self harm 4
- alcoholism 2
- child death 1
- nontraditional hea 1
- suicide / ideation 1
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