A Love Like the Sun by Riss M. Neilson
Published June
11, 2024 by Berkley
Genre:
Contemporary Romance
Taken from Goodreads: Lifelong best friends spend a fateful summer discovering what might happen if they were to be something more in this radiant, heart-clenching adult debut.
Laniah Thompson is a homebody who craves privacy. Issac Jordan is internet
famous and spends his days followed by paparazzi. She runs a small business
with her mom in her hometown. He runs an international brand.
And they’ve been best friends since childhood.
When Issac comes home to Providence for the first time in months and discovers
Laniah’s dream is slipping out of reach as she and her mom struggle to pay the
bills at Wildly Green, their natural hair store, she refuses to take a dime
from him. And so, he does what any self-respecting best friend would do: tells
the world they’re dating.
Suddenly business is booming, and Laniah agrees to his ridiculous plan to
pretend to be lovers for the course of the summer. Just long enough to catch
the eye of an investor and get her dream back on track, like she helped him do
so many years ago, he reminds her.
Too soon, though, Laniah knows she’s playing with fire, because for as long as
they’ve been friends there’s an undeniable pull they’ve never given in to. And
as the lines between art and life—real and pretend—blur, it becomes harder and
harder to see where friendship ends and something else begins....
Told over the course of three sizzling summer months, A Love Like the
Sun is about shared history, those who make us our bravest selves, and
love in its many forms.
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Meet the Author: Riss M. Neilson is a magna cum laude graduate of Rhode Island College, where she won the English department’s Jean Garrigue Award, which was judged by novelist Nick White. Her debut young adult novel, Deep in Providence, was a 2022 finalist for the New England Book Awards, and her forthcoming novel I’m Not Supposed to be in the Dark is set to publish in 2023. She is from Providence and lives for the city’s art and culture scene. When she’s not writing, she’s watching anime or playing video games with her two children. A Love Like the Sun is her adult debut. Learn more online at www.rissmneilson.com.
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