Brentwood best-selling author Kerry Lonsdale is known for her emotionally-charged, romantic, domestic dramas, and for keeping both the fun and “dysfunction” in family, one book at a time.
Her newest title, Falling for You Again, takes that all to another level.
“I see it as kind of a mash-up of family drama and domestic suspense,” she said. “Every single book of mine has a romantic thread through it. Falling for You Again is the most romance-heavy book.”
Falling for You Again, which releases on July 8, explores the story of a woman who reunites with her ex-husband, who she met-then-married in a 24-hour fling in Las Vegas, then left him to focus on her family’s business only to have fate reunite the two in a marriage of convenience to, essentially, save the business, all while not developing feelings for one another.
It’s a second-chance-at-romance type of story about what happened, but didn’t stay, in Las Vegas.
“In the romance industry, you’ve got the people who read romance who love to identify these books by their tropes,” Lonsdale said. “It’s a second chance romance, marriage of convenience with a twist book. You’ve got two people who have actually been married together before and got divorced, and now they’re in a situation where they are married again.”
The book is Lonsdale’s fifth standalone novel and her 11th overalll that includes a pair of trilogies in her “Everything” series and her “No More” trilogy. Since she started writing in 2010, and then officially published in 2016, Lonsdale’s novels have landed as best sellers on the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Amazon Charts, and her Everything series has been at the top of Kindle’s list.
Lonsdale’s latest novel arrives in a time when books, and book stores, are seeing a bit of a renaissance. Barnes & Noble’s newest location in the Streets of Brentwood has a 4.5-star rating on Google with most people enjoying the store’s relocation from Antioch. As well, social media trends like “Bookstagram”on Instagram and “BookTok” on TikTok where people are talking about what they have recently picked up or read has led to the new boom in books.
“Through social media, BookTok, Bookstagram, have just been a huge boon to people picking up paperbacks,” Lonsdale said. “They like that tangible book that they can, with their aesthetic, and take photos of and talk about, review, and that’s become something that we can all come together and bond over.”
Lonsdale will be at the Barnes & Noble in the Streets of Brentwood for her book signing on Saturday, July 12 from noon to 3 p.m.
