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 […]