Falling for Trouble

May 15, 2017
Title’s charming second Librarians in Love contemporary continues the good-natured verve and engaging upbeat voice established in The Undateable. Gorgeous librarian Liam Byrd has taken to the small town of Halikarnassus, N.Y., much as the ladies of the town have taken to his running shorts. But the library budget is under threat from a football-loving meathead mayor, and Liam’s job as library director is looking like a bleak future of stagnation and layoffs. Then the town’s notorious onetime juvenile delinquent, Joanna Green, returns after 10 years away. She’s fresh from a dramatic split with her punk rock band after the others sold out to corporate music interests, and the last thing prickly Joanna wants is to stay in little Halikarnassus forever. But as Joanna thrashes her way through her reunion with her hometown, Liam tempts her to stick around. Joanna and Liam mesh like a good jam session, and their low-key courtship is a delight. Agent: Louise Fury, Bent Agency.

Starred review from May 1, 2017
Dewey meets dive bar.Being a small-town library director isn't for everybody, but Liam Byrd is content with his choice to move out of Boston. That is, until Joanna Green comes back home to Halikarnassus, New York. Smarting from a public humiliation onstage with her rock band, she's embarrassingly glad to have the excuse of helping her Granny recover from a broken leg to put her life back together. When she finds out that Granny broke her leg ogling Liam in running shorts, she's astonished--until Joanna sees him running, too. It doesn't take long for Liam and Joanna to start a fling that surprises both of them in its intensity. But Liam's small-town life and Joanna's big-time ambitions aren't nearly as compatible as the rest of them, and with a library budget on the line, their new love may be put on hold. As with The Undateable (2017), the first book in the Librarians in Love series, Title's realistic depiction of life in a library adds charm and humor to this nearly perfect story. Fans of small-town stories will love Halikarnassus, its colorful cast of characters, and the small subplots throughout. Holding all the chaos together, Joanna and Liam's attraction sizzles on the page, even without much in the way of explicit encounters. A contemporary romance that'll win over any library lover.

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June 1, 2017
In the second book in Title's Librarians in Love series, following The Undateable (2017), rebellious teenager Joanna Green left the small town of Halikarnassus, New York, to become a punk rocker. After some initial successes, she freezes onstage, and leaves her music career in disgrace. Joanna's quick visit home turns out to be longer than expected when she finds out the grandmother who raised her has broken her leg. Liam Byrd, the new library director, loves his job but hates the politics that go with it. With a mayor who wants to take half the library budget for football, Liam is desperate to find ways to keep his funding intact. Unfortunately, one of his strongest, most vocal supporters is laid up with a broken leg, and her sexy granddaughter has become a distraction. Lots of humor, snappy dialogue, and a hunky library director make this romance an entertaining read for all romance fans and library lovers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2017, American Library Association.)