Love Walked In

The grumpy/sunshine trope animates this charming rom-com from Chamberlain (The Slowest Burn). Orphaned Mari Cole found refuge from her rough childhood in books, leading her to her dream career in adulthood: consulting with and revitalizing independent bookshops. When Mari’s mentor, the owner of a California bookstore, asks her to fly to London to help an old friend save his struggling shop, she leaps at the chance. Leo Ross dreamed of being an artist but has been groomed his entire life to take over Ross & Co., one of Britain’s best-known bookstores. When his grandfather dies unexpectedly, Leo’s destiny comes calling and he finds himself in way over his head. While Leo and Mari initially clash over how to manage the shop, opposites soon attract and they become inseparable—until a brace of bombshell family secrets rock their worlds. Readers will fall in love with Mari and Leo as Chamberlain skillfully reveals their hidden depths and believable vulnerabilities. The result is a multilayered love story that hits all the right notes. (Sept.)