Audacity Book Club: June Read

By Nic Daniels

TW: Self-harm, addiction, alcoholism, drug abuse

Hello, audacious readers!

Hope you were able to enjoy some May flowers as we dive right into summer! Last month, we went back to Japan for the newest installation of the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi. This month, we’re taking a week-long vacation to New York with Seven Days in June by Tia Williams.

When Eva Mercy and Shane Hall met at 15 years old, they were fated to crash and burn. Both a cyclone of self-harm and trauma, they found solace in each other for seven days before being ripped apart. Fifteen years later, both have cleaned up and found success.

Eva is a bestselling erotica writer and single mother with a pending movie deal. Shane is an award-winning novelist, sober with lingering rolling stones tendencies. While aware of each other, their adult worlds never collided until an unexpected meeting at a literary event sparks an old flame between the two.

For the next seven days in New York, the two rediscover their connection, but the world doesn’t stop. Eva’s agent is feeling pressed to write the next book in the series that made her famous, but she lost love for long ago. Shane is still battling demons of his own, trying to balance a lingering guilt and new desires. And in between all of this is the wariness of reentering each other’s lives. What they felt as teenagers was real, perhaps even fated, but was it meant to last?

Raw and romantic, Seven Days in June, is the story of two writers trying to figure out who they are, what they want, and how to change their own lives for the better. This book is available wherever books are sold as well as in your local library. I hope you enjoy it, and I will see you at the end of the month for the full review.

Until then, don’t forget to read audaciously!