Here To Stay, written by Adriana Herrera, is a really cute office romance published by Carina Press. This charming story is available tomorrow, August 25, 2020.
Check out my review below. Also, a little excerpt for you inside… Thank you so much, Carina Press, for gifting me an e-copy of this book.
Synopsis – Here To Stay by Adriana Herrrera
Award-winning, highly-acclaimed author Adriana Herrera delivers the sexy, modern enemies-to-lovers romance you’ve been waiting for.
Starting over is more about who you’re with than where you live…
Julia del Mar Ortiz is not having the best year.
She moved to Dallas with her boyfriend, who ended up ditching her and running back to New York after only a few weeks. Left with a massive—by NYC standards, anyway—apartment and a car lease in the scorching Texas heat, Julia is struggling…except that’s not completely true. Running the charitable foundation of one of the most iconic high fashion department stores in the world is serious #lifegoals.
It’s more than enough to make her want to stick it out down South.
The only monkey wrench in Julia’s plans is the blue-eyed, smart-mouthed consultant the store hired to take them public. Fellow New Yorker Rocco Quinn’s first order of business? Putting Julia’s job on the chopping block.
When Julia is tasked with making sure Rocco sees how valuable the programs she runs are, she’s caught between a rock and a very hard set of abs. Because Rocco Quinn is almost impossible to hate—and even harder to resist.
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Book Review
Here to Stay is a charming office romance. Julia moved to Texas to follow her boyfriend, but when she gets there, she is dumped. Julia is strong and decides to focus on her dream job, but the company wants to go public and a consultant is hired to determine if the program Julia works for is worth saving.
As she fights to save her job, she befriends the enemy AKA Rocco, the consultant, a New York exile like her. The more time they spend together, the more sparks ignite. They both fight the attraction but it becomes more and more difficult and succumbing would very well mean that one of them will be out of work.
The romance is so charming. I adored Julia’s family, which reminded a bit of the island I’m from. I could very well picture my own mother doing that. I loved that the romance was between two individuals with different cultures. It was amazing to read about these two characters. The banter, the chemistry, the humor – I loved it all.
Both characters are exactly what the other needs and it’s beautiful to watch them love, struggle, and grow. I really enjoyed this book and would definitely recommend it.
Book Excerpt Below
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About the author: Adriana Herrera
Adriana was born and raised in the Caribbean, but for the last fifteen years has let her job (and her spouse) take her all over the world. She loves writing stories about people who look and sound like her people, getting unapologetic happy endings.
When she’s not dreaming up love stories, planning logistically complex vacations with her family or hunting for discount Broadway tickets, she’s a trauma therapist in New York City, working with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Her Dreamers series has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist and has been featured in The TODAY Show on NBC, Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Library Journal and The Washington Post. Her debut, American Dreamer, was selected as one of Booklist’s ‘Best Romance Debuts of 2019’, and one of the ‘Top 10 Romances of 2019’ by Entertainment Weekly. Her third novel, American Love Story, was one of the winners in the first annual Ripped Bodice Award for Excellence in Romantic Fiction. Adriana is an outspoken advocate for diversity in romance and has written for Remezcla and Bustle about Own Voices in the genre. She’s one of the co-creators of the Queer Romance PoC Collective. Represented by Taylor Haggerty at Root Literary.
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