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Just Stab Me Now

by Jill Bearup

A heroine who refuses to follow the script

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A heroine who refuses to follow the script

Caroline Lindley sets out to write a romance built around familiar tropes, but her heroine, Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst, resists the role Caroline has planned for her. A thirty-six-year-old widow with two children to bring home and a war to stop, Rosamund pushes the novel’s imagined story into collision with Caroline’s own life. The setup gives this contemporary romance a metafictional frame alongside its medieval-inspired world, with the relationship between author and heroine developing from antagonism toward friendship. The book also brings an editor and a possibly familiar “Hot Enemy” into the mix, tying questions of authorship to the romance plot.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers who enjoy contemporary romance with a metafictional premise.
  • For readers interested in medieval-inspired settings, fantasy tropes, and an enemies-to-friends relationship.
  • For readers who like stories featuring a determined adult heroine balancing family responsibilities and a larger conflict.

Themes

Authorship and the making of storiesFamiliar romance tropes and resisting themFamily responsibilityEnmity turning toward friendship

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Book overview

A desperate mother. A dubious escort.

And a deranged author who won't leave them alone.

Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline's favourite tropes.

 

But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow. She has a war to stop and two children to get home to and flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being Only One Bed.

What's an author to do? Especially when discussions with her editor might reveal that he and Rosamund's Hot Enemy have some suspicious similarities . . .

Based on her popular Fantasy Heroine YouTube Shorts series, Jill Bearup's debut novel brings us the best of worlds both meta and medieval-inspired as enemies-to-BFFs Rosamund and Caroline learn what it means to be the hero of your own story.

Swords optional.

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