If you love European settings,
wine, romance, female friendships, laughter, heartbreak, redemption, and a bit
of spice, these are the books for you!
Will There Be Wine?
by Whitney Cubbison
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Austen Keller was living her dream. She landed a career-defining job
which moved her and her husband to Paris. Swoon! Shortly thereafter, she was
divorced. Thud. This wasn’t the plan. Yet there she was—pushing 40 and starting
over.
A decade after she’d last been
single, Austen enters the dating scene playing by a new set of rules in a
different language, culture, and lingerie standards. She experiences every type
of miserable first date imaginable and lives to tell the tales of Pierre the
Mansplainer, Simon the Snoozer, Emile the Over-Sharer, Guillaume of the Gym
Shorts, and many more. On most dates, she struggles to get past one glass of
Bordeaux without wanting to bolt. Even worse, no one chases after her when she
runs. It doesn’t take long for her to realize that whoever said French men were
romantic deserves a swift kick in the pants.
A rewarding and high-powered
career. Check!
Fabulous female friendships. Nailed it!
True love. Umm?
Austen continues to ask herself:
Is “having it all” too much to ask?
A genuine and tragically hilarious
novel about an ex-pat woman's journey of self-discovery through a string of
disastrous dates, relationships forged in a deep cultural divide, world
travels, and wine. A lot of wine.
Will There Be Love?
by Whitney Cubbison
Genre: Romantic Drama
A
propulsive exploration of romantic and platonic love, commitment, shared
history, betrayal and personal reckoning.
To
celebrate her fortieth birthday, Ophelia and her husband Gianluca gather an
unlikely group of eight friends and lovers – some old, some new, some false,
some true – for a long weekend in Ibiza. However, the idyllic villa setting may
be the only thing holding together a complicated tangle of friendship, love,
and betrayal.
Among the guests is Ophelia’s old university flame, Matt, and his new
girlfriend, Austen. While Matt finds himself falling in love, Austen is holding
back, carefully protecting her heart.
Ophelia knows she loves her husband, but “love” is a word she never learned to
say, a silence rooted in a childhood tragedy. What she doesn’t know is that
Gianluca has been whispering it to someone else. And when his mistress crashes
the party along with her own boyfriend, she brings a revelation that could
unravel everything.
Across Rome, Paris and Ibiza, the party guests navigate the tangled paths that
bring people together and push them apart, exploring where love begins, where
it falters, and the courage it takes to hold on—or to let go.
Will There Be Love? is the sequel to
Whitney Cubbison’s debut novel, Will There Be
Wine?, however it can be read as a stand-alone.
Whitney Cubbison is a dual
American & French citizen living in Paris since 2009. She grew up in Texas
and California and graduated from UCLA with a degree in French. She started her
career in Communications working for high-tech PR agencies in San Francisco and
eventually joined Microsoft where she worked for sixteen years, thirteen of
which from the Paris office. During that time, she held various international
roles that encompassed public relations, employee communications, executive
speechwriting, and social media.
She earned her French citizenship
in early 2022 and left Microsoft that summer to focus on completing her first
novel, Will There Be Wine?, which came out in January 2023. The story, while
fiction, was deeply inspired by Whitney’s own experiences as an ex-pat divorcée
living in Paris and trying to navigate the cultural minefield of dating in a
foreign country. A sequel called Will There Be Love? will be out on April 29,
2025.
When she’s not writing, Whitney
can be found sitting in Parisian cafés and restaurants with her friends,
drinking wine.
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2 comments:
Sounds like a great read.
Thank you from the author! I hope you'll check them out!
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