Lyla Sage + Iman Hariri-Kia: Soul Searching

Schedule

Fri Oct 03 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Church of the Village | New York, NY

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Join us for an event with bestselling author Lyla Sage, discussing her new novel Soul Searching.
About this Event

Join us for an event with bestselling author Lyla Sage, discussing her new novel Soul Searching: A Sweetwater Peak Novel. Joining Lyla in conversatoin is author and award-winning journalist Iman Hariri-Kia. This event will be hosted at The Church of the Village at 201 West 13th St.


Please note: ALL books will be presigned - NO personalizations.

Attendees will have to the opportunity to take a posed photo with Lyla after the discussion.


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The Church of the Village is ADA accessible via 13th St. entrance with elevator.

Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.

ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Sept. 19 to request.

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Home is where the heart is—and this one is haunted.

Bestselling author of the Rebel Blue Ranch series, Lyla Sage, returns with a brand-new story, featuring a small-town upholsterer in need of a fresh start, a photographer whose life has come to a screeching halt…and the supernatural forces that bring them together

Collins Cartwright does not want to go home. Sweetwater Peak, Wyoming was supposed to be in her rearview mirror, but when she finds out a developer is trying to buy her parent’s antique shop out from under them, she doesn’t have a choice—at least, that’s what tells her family. They don’t need to know she’s lost her job and is out of money. Or that the ghosts that have always been her companions have recently gone silent.

But just because she’s returned home doesn’t mean she has to stay with her parents or crash on her twin sister’s couch. Lucky for her, the new-to-town upholsterer has a room for rent above his store. Unluckily, it is absolutely crawling with more ghosts who are freezing her out. And Collins hates being ignored.

Brady Cooper is absolutely and totally fine. Seriously, there’s no secret reason why he decided to uproot his life and suddenly move to Sweetwater Peak. He just needed a change of pace. At least, that’s what he tells himself. And everyone else.

When he agrees to let the elusive Collins Cartwright stay in his spare room, he doesn’t know that she’s absolutely bonkers–constantly talking to herself and having conversations with no one–or that she looked like that. But as they begin to get closer, the lines between them start to blur leaving both of them—and the ghosts that have been pushing them together—wondering whether or not their temporary arrangement could be something more permanent.


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Lyla Sage lives in the Wild West with her loyal companion, a sweet, old, blind rescue pitbull. She writes romance that feels like her favorite things: sunshine and big blue skies. She is also the author of Done and Dusted, Swift and Saddled, Lost and Lassoed and Wild and Wrangled. When she’s not writing, she’s reading.

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The Church of the Village, 201 West 13th Street, New York, United States

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