Your Next Read | Seven Days in June

Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is struggling to keep it all together. Since she was a young girl, she has suffered from debilitating migraines. Most people, aside from her best friend and her daughter, can’t understand what it’s like for her.

Shane Hall is an award-winning novelist who likes to stay out of the limelight.

When they cross paths at a literary event, there is an obvious connection. But what nobody knows is that they spent a crazy week madly in love when they were teenagers. They pretend not to know one another, but the Black literati community suspects something nonetheless. And they cannot deny their connection, or the fact that their books are based on one another.

Over the next seven days, Eva and Shane reconnect. But Eva is hesitant to hand her heart over to him once again, and she wants to return to normal. Before he disappears again, she wants the answers to some questions she’s had for fifteen years.

I absolutely loved this book. It was smart, witty, and so well-written. I loved Eva’s character, and I thought she had so much depth and was so dynamic. Shane, too. It took me a while to start this book, but once I got into it, I couldn’t put it down. It covers some really serious and heartfelt topics (being a creative woman, being a single mom, race, drugs, and abuse being some of them). But Williams manages to keep the book light enough to where you aren’t weighed down by it.

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