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A New York Times Notable Book of 2023A New York Times Books Review Best Romances of 2023 pick • Apple Books’ Best Books of the Month • Amazon Best Books of the Month Editor’s Pick, Romance • An NPR “Books We Love” • Library Journal Romance Pick of the Month…

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The mid-twentieth century proves fertile ground for Sebastian's queer Historical Romance, featuring a smart and ambitious working-class reporter and a wealthy newspaper owner's hapless son, forced by his father to toil for a year in the newsroom before being welcomed into management. From their opening meet-cute (a hilarious and character revealing matter of a necktie caught in a file cabinet), Nick Russo finds himself drawn to hapless but good-natured Andy Fleming, a man he should resent but can't quite bring himself to despise. Not only because Andy's self-deprecatingly aware of his own lack of self-confidence and scatterbrained tendencies, but because…

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