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Half-Blown Rose is the amazon editors’ spotlight, the inaugural selection for Sarah gelman’s sarah selects book club @ amazon and the Barnes & Noble June Book Club Pick!
HBR paperback out 4/18/23!
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”Hopeful, empowering, and sexy, this is one of those books you never want to end. The ultimate summer romance, it’s a tribute to the possibility of a second chance at love. Like the main character, I fell head over heels.”-Sarah Gelman, Amazon Books Editorial Director
”Filled with love, lust, music and the sparkle of Paris, Half-Blown Rose feels like a warm spring breeze: rejuvenating and full of hope.” -Al Woodworth, Amazon Editor
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“With Half-Blown Rose, Leesa Cross-Smith has given us a brilliant, sexy, funny masterpiece. Reading her stunning prose is a full-blown experience. Within the deeply intimate worlds she conjures, she captures love, lust, and longing with such emotional intricacy and verve, I’m fairly certain I read this entire book with my hand pressed against my heart.”
-Deesha Philyaw, author of National Book Award 2020 finalist The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
“By far the most exhilarating and sexy American-in-Paris story I’ve ever read. Leesa Cross-Smith’s Half-Blown Rose is smart, intriguing, and pure delight.”
-Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers
“Leesa Cross-Smith’s richly vivid prose pulls you in and transports you to Paris. Sharp-edged and sexy, Half-Blown Rose is an utterly intoxicating story of love, betrayal, and loyalty.”
-Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising
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From the award-winning author of This Close to Okay comes the irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris.
Vincent, having grown up the privileged daughter of artists, has a life that is lovely in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum; she has a vibrant group of friends; and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about his past and their marriage, including the fact that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin—before his family moved to California and never returned.
Now estranged, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son’s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, hazy evenings in nightclubs where Loup’s band plays, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself blossoming. Filled with playlists, travel journal entries, and excerpts from Cillian’s novel, Half-Blown Rose traverses Paris, liminal spaces, and the messy complexities of relationships. As Cillian does all he can to win her back, Vincent must decide what she wants . . . and who she will be.
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Vincent’s lover, Loup, is in an electronic band called Anchois. click here to Dig the Anchois Music IG with little videos + electronic beats courtesy of my dear, handsome husband, Loran! c’est bon bon bon.
