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How to Align the Stars
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| Author | Amy Dressler |
|---|---|
| Genre | Women's Fiction |
| Release Date | June 4, 2024 |
| Publisher | Egret Lake Books |
Description
This snappy, funny, and realistic enemies to lovers rom-com is a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing spun into a college romance–with a twist.
This is the story of two cousins: one with stars in her eyes, the other with her eyes on the stars…
Beatrice is a stubborn, no-nonsense astronomy professor at a small college in wine country. While working toward her tenure, she spends an inordinate amount of time trying to avoid Ben, an annoying librarian she believes wronged her when they were students. Their rapid-fire exchanges could almost be mistaken for chemistry, if he hadn’t done that unspeakable thing so many years ago.
Her younger cousin Heron is a wistful student in her final year of college. The opposite of Beatrice, she is a hopeless romantic, pinning her hopes on a future with her boyfriend Charlie. Heron tries to keep up with her studies, supporting his fraternity life and helping him stay on track for graduate school, while coping with anxiety that set in after her mother abruptly left years ago.
When Charlie proposes to Heron, Bea is worried her younger cousin’s needs are taking a backseat to his ambitions. Heron responds to her cousin’s criticism with a matchmaking scheme designed to show Bea the upside of romance.
As Heron and Bea deal with the fallout from a campus scandal, each finds herself questioning everything she thought she knew about the best course for the future. Eventually, each woman must make a choice: Bea between the comfortable role of merry spinster or a fulfilling partnership; Heron between marriage to Charlie or reaching for a new dream.
Amy Dressler’s whip-smart debut novel is not to be missed, a tour de force of female empowerment, body-positivity, and family friendship as she turns Shakespeare upside down in an unexpected and brilliant way for a new generation of women.
About the Author
I write contemporary commercial fiction featuring heroines who wrestle their emotional baggage while maintaining a sense of humor.
I’m an active member of the Author’s Guild, Women’s Fiction Writer’s Association, and the Pacific Northwest Author’s Association, where my books have twice been recognized as contest finalists. I hold a certificate in Popular Fiction from the University of Washington, as well as a BA in English from Whitman College and a Master’s in Library and Information Science, also from the University of Washington. My current day job is in local government, but I’ve also worked as an academic librarian and freelance pop culture writer.
My hobbies include barely running (I’ve completed ten half marathons, slowly), cooking and baking, hiking, and attending live theater. When I’m not writing, I can often be found cozied reading, eating fancy cheese, shopping for fancy cheese, or cooking with fancy cheese. I live in the Seattle suburbs with my spouse and two high-maintenance cats, next door to my sister and her very silly dog. My love language is jokes.
