As she slowly blacked out, she kept imagining her daughter, Audre, finding her flailing about in Christmas jammies while clutching a tube of strawberry lube and a dildo called the Quarterback (which vibrated at a much higher frequency than advertised- gum-choking frequency). She'd been attempting to masturbate when the gum lodged in her throat, cutting off her air supply. IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2019, THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD EVA MERCY NEARLY choked to death on a piece of gum. Bustle Ī Best Book of the Summer: Harper’s Bazaar Ī Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post.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 Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered…

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. 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. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love.

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. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York. Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…Įva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. JODI PICOULT, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things “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.” The instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon book club pick is 'a heady combination of book love and between-the-sheets love.” (Ruth Ware)

Seven Days in June by Tia Williams