Love on the Shelf

Sheila Roberts Paperback FICTION / Women The battle lines have been drawn between the owner of a bookstore and a heartbroken radio talk show host turned shock jock! Are romance novels giving women unreasonable expectations for men? Is male bitterness rooted in a lack of effort? USA Today bestselling author Sheila Roberts tackles the growing gender divide with wit, charm, and, most importantly, romance. Alice Willoughby owns a bookstore and is an avid romance reader herself, but her love life has been a real series of unfortunate events. Running HEA with her widowed mother Janice has helped her to create a community, which is fulfilling in its own right. Including her sister's rocky relationship with her husband Mark, however, it seems that the three of them are due for their own happily ever afters. Parker Black is a radio talk show host who normally covers sports, only to vent to his audience after a bad breakup leads to his ex making him the villain of her romantasy novel! This turn in his content is great for ratings and before you know it, the Mariners' lineup has made way for embittered men griping about the monstrous expectations of the fairer sex. To make matters worse Mark has gotten swept up in the toxic rhetoric they've been putting on the air. Janice decides that enough is enough and sets up an interview with the man who has been filling her son-in-law's head with nonsense, but a bout of laryngitis has other plans. An unwilling and already nervous substitute, Alice is forced to see Parker's piercing brown eyes through his webcam, which leads to her poorly arguing her case. Things really come to a head when Parker's producer pitches a boycott of Valentine's Day, which coincides with a big event at HEA, igniting a war of the sexes that threatens to overrun Seattle. In the wake of that conflict, the two strike a truce where they'll trade places for a week, and there's no telling what they'll discover!