Romance Author Kathleen Reidy Live at a Wine Bar!

Bookshop West Portal is thrilled to host romance author Kathleen Reidy at Hardware Coffee Co. to celebrate "Engineering A Love Story"
About this Event

This event is FREE to attend. Seating is first-come, first-served. (RSVPs are optional, but encouraged for our planning purposes.)

Meet the author, learn about a terrific new book, ask questions, hear directly from the author, and get personalized signed books!

Bookshop West Portal is thrilled to host debut romance author Kathleen Reidy to celebrate her new novel, Engineering A Love Story. Set in San Francisco in the early 2000s during the dot-com boom, this book is a perfect feel-good read, best enjoyed with a glass of wine. As such, this event will be held at Hardware Coffee Co., a coffee shop, flower shop, and wine bar on West Portal Ave.! (Only a few doors down from our store.) Books will be available to buy on-site.

Join us to get swept off your feet by this sizzling romance set in our very own city. We hope to see you there!

You don't need to have read the book beforehand to enjoy the event, but we do recommend reserving your copy ahead of time:

About the Book:

At the height of the boom, ambition is easy — love is the real gamble

It's the year 2000--dot-coms, Bush v. Gore, and sky-high San Francisco rents. But while the country swoons with irrational exuberance, Chelsea Lefevre's life is deflating faster than a tech bubble.

She'd had everything she thought she was supposed to want: a house on Boston's North Shore, exquisite wedding china, a Waspy mother-in-law. A safe, steady marriage.

But after a mortifying slip-up, Chelsea finds herself heading into the 21st century alone. Her lifeboat? A new job advising tech execs, taken to escape the misogyny she endured as a software engineer--only to discover she has a surprising knack for spotting the next hot thing.

Determined just to stay afloat, Chelsea doesn't have time to wonder if anything beyond safe and steady is possible.

Then, on a West Coast assignment, she meets Seth Murphy, a magnetic sales executive at one of the country's hottest startups. Professional boundaries make him off-limits, but she can't resist his pull. What begins as a secret, casual affair soon jeopardizes Chelsea's career, her newfound independence--and her heart.

Witty and warm, Engineering a Love Story questions how much a smart woman can risk when she's the only female in the room.

About the Author:

Kathleen Reidy is a writer and public librarian based in the Boston area. She holds a master’s degree in library science and spent more than a decade in the tech industry. Her short fiction has been published by Puddingstone Press and WayWords. She lives with her husband and daughters. Engineering a Love Story is her first novel.

Agenda

🕑: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PM
Buy the book, grab a glass of wine, and snag your seat!
🕑: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Hear from the author + Q&A
🕑: 08:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Signing Line - Get your copy personalized by the author