THE ROOMMATE RULES: Brighton Walsh in conversation with Ren Browne!
Schedule
Thu May 14 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
5915 6th Ave A, Kenosha, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53140 | Kenosha, WI
"The Roommate Rules" has all of the BEST spicy tropes. You're looking at: hate to love, sex lessons, bad boy/good girl, roommates with benefits, grumpy + sunshine, and forced proximity. This fourth installment of our favorite brothers of Starlight Cove features Declan - the town's grumpy, rebellious tattoo artist - going up against Penelope, the perfectly composed librarian. It's a showdown you won't want to miss.Join Brighton at Blue House Books on Thursday, May 14th, at 6:30 p.m., where she will be discussing "The Roommate Rules" with fellow romance author Ren Browne ("Providence"), answering questions from the audience, and signing books!
Come celebrate with this fabulous local author and grab a signed copy!
This event requires a $5 reservation deposit. Get all the details here: https://withfriends.co/event/27776025
About THE ROOMMATE RULES:
Starlight Cove’s prim little librarian has despised me since the first day I parked my motorcycle on her sidewalk. Now our feud has landed us as roommates…and she just asked me to teach her every dirty thing she’s never experienced.
Making Penelope Shea lose her mind has been my favorite hobby since she moved here. But our infamous daily sparring backfires when the town’s meddling grandma sentences us to five hundred hours of community service…or thirty days of living together.
Penelope chooses cohabitation with the enemy to protect her spotless record. I agree because watching her unravel sounds like fun.
What I don’t expect is to discover my rule-enforcing roommate has secrets—namely, a hidden career penning filthy romances and a list of sinful lessons she’s written about but never learned firsthand.
Like an idiot, I volunteer as her tutor.
Penelope calls it research. I call it trouble. Because somewhere between her first lesson and her first tattoo, she goes from being in my head to being in my bed.
Now she’s under my skin as permanently as my ink is under hers.
Our month is almost up. But I’ve never been good with rules—and letting her walk away isn’t one I plan to follow.
About BRIGHTON WALSH:
Award-winning "USA Today" and "Wall Street Journal" bestselling author Brighton Walsh spent a decade as a professional photographer before taking her storytelling in a different direction and reconnecting with her first love —writing. She likes her books how she likes her tea—steamy and satisfying—and adores strong-willed heroines and the protective heroes who fall head over heels for them.
Throughout her twelve years as a published author, Brighton's written more than 40 romances, some of which have earned starred reviews from "Library Journal" and "Booklist", with one of her novels named among "Booklist's" top 101 romances of the past decade. Her work has been featured in "Women's Health" and "Publishers Weekly", among other publications.
Brighton lives along the shores of Lake Michigan with her real-life hero of a husband, her two kids—both taller than her—and her dog who thinks she's a queen. Her boy-filled house is the setting for dirty socks galore, frequent dance parties (okay, so it's mostly her, by herself, while her children look on in horror), and more laughter than she thought possible.
About PROVIDENCE:
You fall in love with a sinner and there's two ways it can go...
Left to fend for himself as a young boy, Aiden has lived most of his life with little to call his own and little say in what comes next. But when his latest job working as a cattle driver for a wealthy rancher turns bad, he makes the deal that he hopes will give him a chance at a new start. All he has to do is spend the next week making sure nothing and no one causes his employer’s luck to run dry at the card table. Then he’s free.
Except in this bustling Texas town, Aiden finds far more than he bargained for once he encounters a charismatic gambler named Cypress, an apparent thief who seems far more interested in getting under Aiden’s skin than he does in playing the cards he’s been dealt.
The more Aiden learns about his magnetic adversary, the more he’ll be forced to question if the one path he never saw for himself is the one worth taking—no matter where the road leads.
Set nine years before "Adversity's" events, this Wild West romance tells the story of how certain enemies became unlikely allies willing to bet everything on each other.
About REN BROWNE:
Ren Browne is a lifelong hopeless romantic, professional cowboy enthusiast, and rumored woodland spirit. When not reading or writing, she can be found spending time with her husband, who is the living embodiment of Ron Swanson, their two outdoor-loving children, their silly dog, and a growing flock of chickens.
Where is it happening?
5915 6th Ave A, Kenosha, WI, United States, Wisconsin 53140
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