First published 2026
Lila Everwood has published one novel and is already dreaming of the next two. She pulls espresso shots to pay the bills, but she wants out of the apron and into a writing life full-time. Then Elizabeth Lancaster walks into the coffee shop. Elizabeth is the reigning queen of regency romance, and she has not written a single word in three years. Her publisher sends in a ghostwriter. That ghostwriter turns out to be Lila. Grady, Elizabeth's son and literary agent, thinks the whole arrangement is a disaster waiting to happen. He is not shy about saying so. But Lila and Elizabeth start trading ideas, and something clicks between them. The two writers, separated by fame and experience, find they need each other more than either expected. Meanwhile, Lila and Grady keep colliding, and the friction between them starts to feel a lot less like professional tension and more like something else entirely. Set against a seaside backdrop, this is a story about chasing a dream while the ground keeps shifting, and about what happens when the story you planned turns out to be the wrong one. From New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey, Leave It Up To Love arrives in 2026.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction, contemporary-romance
Vibes: character-driven, heartwarming, introspective, romantic-tension, witty
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, professional-conflict, slow-burn-romance
Setting: Coffee Shop, Seaside
Period: Contemporary
58 pages · Kindle Edition · Amazon Original Stories