Waiting on Wednesday: Lizzie & Dante by Mary Bly

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking The Spine where we highlight some of the upcoming books we can't wait to read! 

Title: Lizzie & Dante 
Author: Mary Bly
Publisher: Dial Press
Hardcover, 320 Pages

Publication Date: June 1st, 2021

Summary: On the heels of a difficult break-up and a devastating diagnosis, Shakespearian scholar Lizzie Delford decides to take one last lavish vacation on Elba, the sun-kissed island off the Italian coast, with her best friend and his movie-star boyfriend. Once settled into a luxurious seaside resort, Lizzie has to make big decisions about her future, and she needs the one thing she may be running out of: time. She leaves the yacht-owners and celebrities behind and sneaks off to the public beach, where she meets a sardonic chef named Dante, his battered dog Lily, and his wry daughter Etta, a twelve-year-old desperate for a mother. While Dante shows Lizzie the island's secrets, and Etta dazzles with her irreverent humor, Lizzie is confronted with a dilemma. Is it right to fall in love if time is short? Is it better to find a mother briefly, or to have no mother at all? And the most difficult question of all: What if falling in love inevitably leads to broken hearts?

Mary Bly (pen name Eloisa James) is actually a former professor and current boss of mine, and I absolutely love all of her writing. So when I found out that she had a contemporary romance story coming out, I was super excited and knew that I wanted to read it ASAP! Technically, this book came out yesterday, so it isn't really a book to wait on...but it *just* came out and I don't have a copy yet, so I decided that it counts!

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