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| New York City – Present Day Rosie left her home in Tennessee for New York City to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming a published romance author. She has enrolled in New York University’s graduate creative writing program and so far, has enjoyed it, except for one person. From the time Rosie met Aiden, he has been critical of her writing. He makes it clear that he doesn’t think romance writing is literary writing. It comes to a head one day in class when they start arguing. Their professor and mentor, Ida, calls them into the office. She informs them that they have to get along and she orders them to work on a book together. It must be a romance but without a happily ever after. Rosie can only write HEA while Aiden can’t write romance. It will be interesting to see if they can succeed or end up killing each other. But the more they are around each other (reluctantly), the more they get to know each other. Will a romance bloom between them? NOT IN MY BOOK revolves around two agonistic people who think the other writes trash. Rosie grew up reading romance books and it has been her goal to get published. She poured her savings into coming to New York to enroll in NYU. Things have been going smoothly. She attends her classes, writes, and works part-time at a restaurant. But Aiden, who only writes that literary stuff where there is no romance and someone ends up dead at the end, infuriates Rosie. They are required to write chapters and read them out loud in front of the class, where they are then critiqued. Aiden always gives negative critiques. Once they are forced to work together, their relationship is stilted. She thinks he is stuck up, while he thinks she has her head in the clouds. They soon discover that there is more to the other than they ever expected. NOT IN MY BOOK is told from Rosie’s point of view. She is a Peruvian American and big on families. Aiden doesn’t get along with his father, who wants his only child to give up on the writing nonsense and join him in the family business. They are definitely opposite attracts, and they continue to fight from time to time, which leads to some lively banter between them. Readers will soon be sympathetic to both. Writing romance is Rosie’s dream, while Aiden wants to prove to his father that he can succeed in the literary world. Spending time together draws them closer, as does an attraction. They seem so different from each other, but it takes seeing the other in a different light to realize they are alike in so many ways. They want to be successful writers. Will they find love together? Most of this tale gives tidbits of the book they are writing. Will it become a finished book, one that has a happy ending after all? An intriguing tale that focuses on Rosie and Aiden with their antagonistic attitude toward each other that soon shifts to romantic feelings. Don’t miss what happens in NOT IN MY BOOK. Patti Fischer |
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NOT IN MY BOOK – Katie Holt