The Love Wager

The Love WagerTwo people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Mr. Wrong Number. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides its time to become a full on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the

exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question

finely rendered

as childhood itself

and unsettling

With her unique Dickensian flair

“This stunning

Gurba implicates everyone from William Burroughs to her grandfather

Library Journal's Best Romances of the Year

Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California

On a hot summer day in 1935

And to whom does she belong

all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House