Seven Days in June
Eva Mercy is a single mother and the bestselling author of a fifteen-book vampire romance series she has grown to resent, living with debilitating migraines and raising a sharply observant daughter in Brooklyn. Shane Hall is a literary novelist newly sober, newly celebrated, and newly back in New York for the first time in years. Twenty years earlier, the two spent one feverish high-school week together in Washington that ended badly, shaped both of their entire catalogs, and was never publicly connected to either name. When they cross paths at a literary event, the decades-old conversation they never finished is suddenly, publicly, restarted. Tia Williams's 2021 novel pairs a second-chance Black romance with a funny, aching portrait of chronic illness, artistic reinvention, and what an adult couple chooses to do with a week they still owe each other.
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Eva Mercy is a single-mom bestselling vampire-romance author. Shane Hall is a literary novelist who keeps writing about a girl from his past. They meet again at a Brooklyn panel and have one week.
Yes. Seven Days in June contains explicit on-page romance, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance between two Black novelists with a shared past is central to the plot.
Yes. Seven Days in June contains explicit on-page romance, around 4 out of 5 on the spice scale. The romance between two Black novelists with a shared past is central to the plot.
Yes. Seven Days in June won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work and was a Reese's Book Club pick. Tia Williams has written several other contemporary novels.
Seven Days in June was written by Tia Williams, published in 2021 by Grand Central Publishing.
Seven Days in June is 336 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, Seven Days in June takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
Seven Days in June is a standalone novel by Tia Williams, not part of a series.
Seven Days in June is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
