An experienced bookseller, Coco Zephir is currently a marketing intern at Penguin Random House. She loves romance titles and here offers profiles of a pair of books she's most excited about:
Bad Words by Ríoghnach Robinson (St. Martin's Press, 9781250431295, $30, October 6)
"I had said something nice. She had said something honest."
Looking for the next it book in romance? Bad Words will consume you, as a book critic and author battle it out in the name of fiction.
This book is about readership, authorship, and what happens when the lines blur between the two. What makes or breaks a book? How do socials influence book sales? Should authors dip into book reviews? Numerous angles of publishing are tackled in this deftly woven story of Selina and Parker in New York City.
If there's one romance you read this fall, this should be it.
Broken Rival by Tessa Bailey (Avon, 9780063381018, $30, October 6)
Two brothers and one infamous time traveler search for love and freedom in Tessa Bailey's new dystopian romance, Broken Rival.
Magnolia is infamous across time, thanks to her parents' illegal time travel creation. In an effort to protect her, her parents send her to the past to shelter with a pastor and his family: a wife and two sons, Fallon and Ramsey. Magnolia's feelings are torn between the two brothers, and when disaster strikes, all bets are off for who will win her heart in this punchy dystopian romance.
For fans of high-heat dystopian love triangles.