IT'S DIFFERENT THIS TIME

A New York City brownstone brings together a pair during two different stages of their lives.

When her TV show gets canceled, Los Angeles based working actor June Wood finds herself between gigs hoping to make ends meet. An intriguing but vague email implores her to visit New York City with news about the brownstone she used to rent. She returns to her former home and is shocked to learn that not only has she inherited the multimillion dollar place from her former landlord, but she co-owns it with her old roommate, Adam Harper, a man she lived with for six years but hasn’t seen since she left five years ago. It’ll take a month for all the paperwork to get in order, and, in the meantime, June and Adam are once again living under the same roof. If there’s any hope of repairing their relationship, they’ll have to look back at the events that led them to this point and confront their unresolved feelings. The narrative jumps between the present and past, both through June’s engaging first-person narrative. In the past timeline, June dreams of being on Broadway and Adam aspires to become a great chef. They barely know each other when they become roommates but over time become best friends with the possibility of more constantly lingering as they grow together and support each other through the highs and lows of careers, family, and other relationships. This slow-burn romance is propelled by the question of what happened to tear them apart, and while that reveal doesn’t entirely land, all the small, tender moments between June and Adam are what will captivate readers. Debut author Richard crafts emotionally complex characters full of yearning, and the lush New York setting adds extra appeal.

A deeply felt, passion-filled, dual-timeline love story.