Eight Weeks in Paris: The Perfect Beach Read

by S.R. Lane

Overview

BREAKING: Lost novel of Bell Epoque Paris, The Throne, comes to the silver screen with an A-list cast. But will on-set drama doom the filming of this gay love story before it starts?

Nicholas Madden is one of the best actors of his generation. His personal life is consistently a shambles, but he'll always have his art—and The Throne is going to be his legacy.

Then his costar walks off the runway and into rehearsal. The role of a lifetime is about to be sunk by a total amateur.

Chris Lavalle is out, gorgeous and totally green. He has thousands of Instagram followers, a string of gorgeous exes and more ad campaigns to his name than one can count. But he’s more than just a pretty face, and The Throne is his chance to prove it.

If only Nicholas wasn’t a belligerent jerk with a chip on his shoulder and a face carved by the gods.

Eight weeks of filming, eight weeks of 24/7 togetherness bring Nicholas and Chris closer than the producers had dared to dream. Chemistry? So very much not a problem. But as The Throne gets set to wrap and real life comes calling, they’ll have to rewrite the ending of another love story: their own. 

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780369719393
Publisher:	Carina Press
Publication date:	06/07/2022
Sold by:	HARLEQUIN
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	537,556
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

S. R. Lane lives in Paris, where she alternates between teaching high school English and strolling from bookstore to bookstore, looking for more books to add to her already-towering shelves. After studying Shakespeare, gender, and sexuality at the Sorbonne, she fell in love with romance and romance scholarship. She is especially drawn to queer love stories, messy characters with a sense of agency, a strong setting, and a truly deserved HEA.

Editorial Reviews

03/21/2022

Lane debuts with a steamy, thoughtful queer romance set in 2024 Paris. Hot-tempered film star Nicholas Madden is furious when Instagram model Chris Lavelle is cast opposite him in The Throne, an adaptation of a queer period novel dear to Nicholas’s heart. Despite Nicholas’s reservations, however, Chris proves to be a skilled actor, and their on-set chemistry is undeniable. Nicholas’s gruff attitude marks him as exactly Chris’s type, while closeted Nicholas is caught off-guard by his instant attraction to out-and-proud Chris’s bravery and beauty. They eventually give into their feelings, but the risk of being caught by production or the swirling media circus—which Lane cleverly incorporates through excerpts from discussions boards, social media threads, tabloid articles, and interviews that open each chapter—looms large, threatening their careers, privacy, and blossoming relationship. That they’ll get together—and that they’ll be outed—both seem inevitable from their first meeting, so readers will feel they spend much of the opposites-attract slow burn waiting for disaster, and may be disappointed by how comparatively little time is spent on the aftermath. Still, Lane’s critique of celebrity is well done, and the men’s heated connection—evidenced by a two-chapter-long sex scene—makes for scorching reading. This smart, sexy romance marks Lane as a writer to watch. (June)

Publishers Weekly

Lane debuts with a steamy, thoughtful queer romance set in 2024 Paris. ...This smart, sexy romance marks Lane as a writer to watch.” —Publishers Weekly

“Lane effectively frames her stunningly romantic, exquisitely sensual debut against a perfectly evoked Parisian backdrop, while at the same time deftly charting Nicholas’s realistically nuanced journey to naming and claiming his sexual identity. As heart-wrenching yet infinitely hopeful as any ballad sung by Edith Piaf, this prompts the exclamation: c’est magnifique.” –Booklist

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