Author Event: Katie Karambelas

Join Page 158 Books as we welcome author Katie Karamabelas for the lauch of her new novel, Light Me Up.

**This is a ticketed event and includes a signed copy of Light Me Up, as well as the preorder swag.**

Addy always loved a plan, and hers involved going to the same college and then marrying her middle school sweetheart. But when Addy's mom dies and she's forced to move to another state, she finds herself boyfriend-less and stuck in a town that's main source of income is an amusement park.

Lucky for Addy, her new neighbor gets her a job and brings her into a friend group that's known each other since diapers. But there's one person in particular Addy can't seem to stay away from, even when her neighbor warns her against it.

Asher is broody and dangerous, and the completely opposite kind of boy Addy would ever date. But why can't she keep her eyes off him every time he enters a room?

Feeling torn between the boy she left behind and the one who starts to see her for the person she's becoming, Addy finds herself on a rollercoaster of emotions.

Can one summer alter the course of your forever?

Addy is about to find out.

Katie Karambelas is an author, wife, and mother of three residing outside Raleigh, NC. While her day job has her strategically planning clinical trial proposals, Katie completed her MFA in fiction in 2017 at Cedar Crest College and has a BA in media studies with a concentration in screenwriting. Her debut new adult novel Second Best was published by Champagne Books in August 2020, and she has since gotten her rights back. After changing the name, adding an epilogue, re-editing, and changing the cover, Second Best is now Before We Break, which released August 5th, 2025.

You can find Katie’s words on websites such as The Huffington Post, Elite Daily, Thought Catalog, Motherly, and Matador Network, as well as in numerous literary magazines.

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