With the help of a romance book club for men, a baseball player
sets off on a clever crusade to save his marriage.
It takes two people to fall in love, but it also "takes two
people to ruin a relationship." Such is the case for Gavin Scott--a second
baseman for the Nashville Legends baseball team, who suffers from a stuttering
problem--and his loyal, devoted wife, Thea, the mother of their young twin
girls. The couple married when Thea became pregnant. What started as a happy
union settled, over time, into a sexless routine as "the daily necessities
of dealing with the kids and the house and his game schedule" wore down
their relationship.
When Gavin learns that Thea's been faking it in their marital
bed for years, the revelation pits them against each other, resurrecting more
truths and slights, until their faltering marriage comes completely undone.
Gavin seeks the support of his friends, a group that meets covertly to eat,
drink and discuss Regency romance novels. They refer to these books set in
18th- and 19th-century England as "manuals" that coach them in their
romantic dealings with their partners and spouses.
The Bromance Book Club is the opening installment of a fun
and funny, sports-related romance series. It unspools a dual-threaded narrative
that juxtaposes Gavin and Thea's story alongside that of a Regency countess and
her knight in shining armor. Through a series of clever, entertaining plot
twists and striking parallels in the relationships of both couples, centuries
apart, Lyssa Kay Adams (The Prospect) depicts how love--and the
complications and ecstasies therein--never really changes or goes out of style.
The Bromance Book Club (a novel) by Lyssa Kay Adams
Berkley, $16.00 Paperback, 9781984806093, 352 pages
Publication Date: November 5, 2019
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