A swoony, fast-paced rom com in which a screenwriter and a sexy tech CEO go from lovers to enemies and back to lovers again...
Third Place Books welcomes New York Times bestselling author Alex Aster to our Lake Forest Park store for a celebration of her adult romance debut, Summer in the City! Tickets are required in advance.
What you need to know:
All tickets must be purchased through Eventbrite. Pre-ordering the book will not grant you access to the event.
Book-bundled tickets include a signed copy of the event's featured book. For the month of June at Third Place Books, General Admission ticket funds include a donation to The Queer Trans Project.
This event does NOT include a public signing! All books will be pre-signed. To guarantee a signed deluxe edition of Summer in the City, please purchase a book-bundled ticket through Eventbrite.
If you are unable to attend the event, your book will be placed on hold at our Lake Forest Park store. You may request to have your book placed on hold at our Ravenna or Seward Park location. Please allow time for transfer.
Copies of Summer in the City and other books by Alex Aster will be available for purchase at the store. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book in advance!
About Summer in the City. . .
Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.
In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay…until she realizes her new neighbor is tech “Billionaire Bachelor” Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.
When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay... if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her emotional support five block radius.
One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.
Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise.
Until it isn’t.
Praise for Summer in the City. . .
“This was a fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read! Elle and Parker have chemistry from the jump, but a combination of forced proximity and her hatred of him is fuel for witty banter, a long, slow burn and plenty of steam! I loved how Elle's true enemies-to-lovers journey is with New York City itself. Aster pays tribute to so many special NYC landmarks and experiences making the setting every bit a living character as the people in it.”
—Abby Jimenez, author of Just for the Summer
"This book is voicy, refreshing, and with two lovable lead characters who have the kind of chemistry that makes you never want to stop reading! Summer In The City is full of banter, sizzling, and so immersive, it made me feel like I was walking around New York. Pure, steamy fun, and the perfect summer read! I adored every word, and I hope Alex Aster never stops writing romance!!"
—Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis
“Bestselling YA author Aster’s adult debut (after the Lightlark Saga series) demonstrates that she’s as talented at handling contemporary settings as building fantasy worlds. … Aster builds their backstories and chemistry well, making this enemies-to-lovers arc believable. Meanwhile, their pretend dates take them on a whirlwind tour of famous New York sites, which will please armchair travelers. Aster should win a whole new group of fans with this.”
—Publishers Weekly
Alex Aster is a #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author who has been featured by Good Morning America, the Kelly Clarkson Show, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, Today.com, and People Magazine. She studied creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, lives in New York, and is never too far from a coffee shop.
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