KISS AND TELL LITERARY SALON at Books Alameda

Join us this month as we bring in the New Year with Historical Love, featuring author Veronica Wolff celebrating her latest release: Across the Pressing Dark, a YA time travel romantasy of love, magic, and the Scottish Highlands, along with fellow author Christina Britton celebrating the release of her swoon-worthy romance: To Heist and To Hold!

Discussion hosted by authors Rebecca Hunter and Addie Woolridge.

About the Across the Pressing Dark: Lost in time, bound by love, hunted by magic.

At nineteen, Rose thought tracking down her unpredictable mother in Scotland would be her biggest challenge. Instead, she’s ripped from her time and hurled into the unforgiving Highlands of the seventeenth century, where she becomes entangled in deadly clan rivalries, ancient magic, and a history she was never meant to uncover.

Irresistibly drawn to Callum, a young Scotsman trapped by fate and servitude, Rose finds a connection unlike any she has ever known. But their growing love puts them both in mortal peril. Dark forces gather, wielding powerful sorcery to keep them apart, and Rose must decide: return to her own time, or risk everything to forge a future with Callum?

A sweeping tale of love, sacrifice, and magic, Across the Pressing Dark is the first book in a romantic young adult time-travel duology—where love defies time, and the past is never truly buried.

Veronica Wolff is an award-winning, bestselling author who likes monsters, fight scenes, and first kisses. Sometimes all at the same time. She lived everywhere from Texas to Hawaii to India before settling in Northern California, where she shares a home with her husband and her black cat familiar, Josie. She writes across genres, including Scottish historical romance, time travel, contemporary romance, and young adult fiction. She may or may not have a top-secret alter ego named Ron Wolff, who writes gonzo sci-fi thrillers.

About To Heist and To Hold: A vigilante widow and a casino owner are both trying to bluff their way to a winning hand.
Heloise Marlowe has always forged her own path. As a former blacksmith and fencing instructor, she wasn’t just going to sit around knitting after her husband died. The Wimpole Street Widows Society, a secret group dedicated to balancing the scales of justice, was a much better fit for her skills. Her newest mission: seduce the owner of the club Dionysus and gain access to the den’s inner workings. She didn’t mind putting her body on the line, but she wasn’t prepared to gamble her heart.
Ethan Sinclaire has worked hard to clean up his club after the betrayal of his brother. But now, rumors are swirling that his club is just as crooked as before. He won’t let anyone destroy what he’s built, so when Heloise starts poking around, he decides to go all in, in hopes that she’ll show her hand. Enjoying her company is the easy part. Keeping himself from falling—that’s a whole different card game.

Christina Britton developed a passion for writing romance novels shortly after buying her first at the impressionable age of thirteen. Though for several years she put brush instead of pen to paper, she has returned to her first love and is now writing full time. She spends her days dreaming of corsets and cravats and noblemen with tortured souls. She lives with her husband and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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