Rescheduled and perhaps SOLD OUT: BOOKSTORE ROMANCE DAY: Kennedy Ryan presents THIS COULD BE US, with Anita Rao and WUNC’s Embodied at Flyleaf Books

A $5 ticket OR Kennedy Ryan book purchase is required to attend this special event. The author will personalize one book and will autograph up to two additional books for customers in the signing line.

Flyleaf will offer seating for up to 150 in-person guests. Scroll down to buy a ticket or book to reserve your seat.

WUNC’s “Embodied” host Anita Rao records a live interview for the show’s podcast with New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Kennedy Ryan.

Anita Rao joins Kennedy Ryan on the Flyleaf stage to discuss romance writing and Ryan’s recent release, This Could Be Us. Come celebrate Bookstore Romance Day at Flyleaf with this special event!

“Heart-searing, sensual, and life affirming.” ―Emily Henry
Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She’s a domestic goddess who’s never met a party she couldn’t host or a charge she couldn’t lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her forever, goes poof in a cloud of betrayal and disillusion.

But there is no time to pout or sulk, or even grieve the life she lost. She’s too busy keeping a roof over her daughters’ heads and food on the table. And in the process of saving them all, Soledad rediscovers herself. From the ashes of a life burned to the ground, something bold and new can rise.

But then an unlikely man enters the picture—the forbidden one, the one she shouldn’t want but can’t seem to resist. She’s lost it all before and refuses to repeat her mistakes. Can she trust him? Can she trust herself?

After all she’s lost . . .and found . . .can she be brave enough to make room for what could be?

Kennedy Ryan, a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. writes for women from all walks of life, empowering them and placing them firmly at the center of each story and in charge of their own destinies. Kennedy and her writings have been featured in NPR, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Glamour, Cosmo, Ebony, TIME, and many others. The audio edition of her novel Reel received the prestigious Audie® Award, and her Skyland series is currently in development for television at Peacock. The co-founder of LIFT 4 Autism, an annual charitable book auction, Kennedy has a passion for raising Autism awareness. Dubbed the ‘Queen of Hugs’ by her readers, she is a wife to her “lifetime lover” and mother to an extraordinary son.

Anita Rao is an award-winning journalist, host, creator, and executive editor of “Embodied,” a weekly radio show and podcast about sex, relationships & health. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of “The State of Things,” WUNC’s flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.