Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising their past buried traumas. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author. Join us for our book club dedicated to readers of everything romance!īrooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer. Readers will feel as attached to these characters as Eva and Shane are to each other.This event will take place in-person at the South Beach Library. She lays bare what happens when we are “fearless enough to hold each other close no matter how catastrophic the world” becomes.
Through this gripping love story, Williams reckons with family histories and shows the power in rewriting our origin stories. It’s refreshing to see a character whose disability is fully developed and integrated into the narrative from start to finish. But Williams never uses Eva’s illness to inspire pity or to cast her as somehow weak. Eva has experienced migraines since she was young, and she still struggles to manage them without revealing her pain to the world. In addition to addressing mental health concerns, Seven Days in June portrays the daily difficulties of having an invisible disability. Eva has a history of self-harm, and an early scene depicts an attempted sexual assault. Shane entered foster care as a child and is now in Alcoholics Anonymous. But this isn’t a light romance by any means, especially during flashbacks.
Chosen family is a strong central theme in the novel, and characters like Eva’s spunky daughter, Audre, and book editor, CeCe, bring warmth to the pages. Seven Days in June is a slow burn as Shane and Eva attempt to heal old wounds, their love affair made all the more delicate by Eva’s history of abandonment. The Black literary world doesn’t know that Eva and Shane were teenage lovers-or that they’ve been communicating to each other through their books for years.ĪLSO IN BOOKPAGE: Summer reading 2021: 9 books to soak in this season The “time bomb” is Shane Hall, a literary novelist and former paramour who unexpectedly reappears in Eva’s life at a book festival. The “grown woman” is Eva Mercy, a 32-year-old romance novelist and single mom in Brooklyn. Teenage girls couldn’t wait to be ruined.” So writes Tia Williams, author of the smart and steamy Seven Days in June. “Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs.
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