Lease on Love
Falon Ballard's Lease on Love is a contemporary New York romcom built on a charming case of mistaken identity. Sadie Rose Green is a Manhattan junior gallery employee who has just been passed over for a promotion she had been counting on, and in a tipsy moment she signs up for a dating app called Hopp. She arrives at her first match and finds herself instead at the Brooklyn brownstone of Jack Thomas, a quiet, mildly disheveled FinTech bro whose date she has accidentally crashed. Jack is also looking for a roommate, the apartment is enormous and rent free in exchange for cohabitation, and Sadie, broke and reeling, accepts the offer in a moment of bravado. What begins as a strictly platonic arrangement, complete with itemized chore lists, slowly turns into a friends to lovers slow burn as Sadie helps Jack rebuild a social life his late mother's death had emptied. Ballard writes a warm, funny, post quarantine romcom about the grown up roommate fantasy.
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After getting fired, dumped, and locked out of her apartment in one afternoon, Sadie taps a roommate-matching app meant for dating. The Brooklyn brownstone she lands in comes with a moody architect and a long live-in lease.
Lease on Love was written by Falon Ballard and published in 2022. It is her debut novel, a contemporary romance about a woman and man who become unexpected roommates after a Tinder mishap.
Lease on Love contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is gentle and slow-burn, leaning more on emotional development than steam.
Lease on Love contains some on-page content, around 3 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance is gentle and slow-burn, leaning more on emotional development than steam.
Lease on Love is 352 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Lease on Love takes most readers 5 to 8 hours to finish.
Lease on Love is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
Lease on Love is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
