Fall in Love: Author Shirlene Obuobi's Latest Romance, with Jessica Joyce

Shirlene Obuobi made a smashing debut with On Rotation, and she's quickly earned a reputation for multi-faceted and cross-cultural romantic novels. Her novels are deliciously intelligent and delightful!

We'll be hosting Shirlene Obuobi to celebrate her latest novel Die for Me. She'll be joined in conversation by fellow romance writer Jessica Joyce.

The event is free to attend, but RSVPs are encouraged so we can accomodate everyone.

Books will be available for purchase at the event.

About the Book:

“I'm obsessed.” —Ali Hazelwood

A stay-up-all-night, smart, spicy romance following a doctor who finds herself falling for an alluring, much-younger man with a deadly secret

Sean’s not in the market for love. The only female, let alone Black, interventional cardiologist at her hospital, she’s watched too many of her male colleagues divorce their first wives to marry younger models—and then there’s the abusive relationship she’s spent the better part of her early 30s healing from. Her passions are reserved for her best friend, her goddaughter, and her job.

Then she meets Julian. Brooding, beautiful and eleven years her junior. In short: A bad idea.

Julian pursues her in a way that sets off alarm bells in her mind, but she finds herself unable to resist their undeniable chemistry—even starts fantasizing about him in dreams that feel altogether too real. They also have a lot in common despite their age gap. So, to hell with it: If men can date younger, why can’t she? But the more Sean gets to know him, the more impossible Julian seems: He has a depth and sorrow to him that’s beyond his years, and sometimes there’s a look in his eyes that’s less than human, and leaves her feeling more like prey. Plus, Sean herself has been exhibiting odd symptoms—memory lapses, a lack of restraint that's unlike her, persistent exhaustion—that all trace back to Julian, making Sean feel more than a little afraid. Who—or what—is she falling, irrevocably, in love with?

Extraordinarily transfixing, suspenseful, and addictive, Die for Me is nothing short of a seduction.

About the Speakers:

Shirlene Obuobi is a Ghanaian American cardiologist, cartoonist, and author who grew up in Chicago, Illinois; Hot Springs, Arkansas; and the Woodlands, Texas. Her novels, On Rotation and Between Friends & Lovers, have been featured on multiple national outlets such as Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, and Good Morning America.

Jessica Joyce is the bestselling author of relatable, character-driven contemporary romance stories that feature as much yearning as she can stuff into them. When she's not working on a new book, you can find her making a playlist, watching Sleepless in Seattle and the 2005 version of Pride & Prejudice on repeat, or curled up with a book she didn't have to write.

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