Summer in the City

'Hotter than the rest of your TBR' Cosmo

Alex Aster

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
01 July 2025

Adult & contemporary romance; Fiction: special features

‘Hotter than the rest of your TBR' Cosmo ‘Pure, steamy

fun, and the perfect summer read! I adored every word, and I hope Alex

Aster never stops writing romance!!’ Ali Hazelwood, author of The Love Hypothesis

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Lightlark Saga, this is Alex Aster's debut romance novel.

Twenty-seven-year-old

screenwriter, Elle, has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget

movie set in New York City. The only problem? She’s had writer’s block

for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.

In

a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she

swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford

(floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt

included). It’s the perfect place to write her screenplay . . . until

she realizes her new neighbor is tech 'Billionaire Bachelor' Parker

Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It’s been a

lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.

When seeing him again

turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her

enemy/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay . .

. if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes

anonymously, and he’s on the cover of every business magazine. He

frequents fancy red-carpeted events, and she doesn’t like leaving her

emotional support five block radius.

One summer. One wall apart.

He

needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company’s precarious

acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations.

Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to

rediscover the skyscraper-glimmering, pizza-crusted, sunlit charms of

the city.

Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It’s all pretend. Promise.

Until it isn’t.

'A fun, stay-up-late-to-finish read!' Abby Jimenez, author of Just for the Summer

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By: Alex Aster
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 135mm,
ISBN: 9781526691569
ISBN 10: 1526691566
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Alex Aster is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Lightlark and Nightbane and the Emblem Island series for children, inspired by her Colombian heritage. Summer in the City is her first romance novel.