So thrilled to finally reveal the cover you will hopefully see in bookstores everywhere this summer!
After Hours on Milagro Street, available July 12, is my
🌺Latinx
🌺Small town
🌺High-heat
🌺Big family
🌺Opposites attract
🌺Forced proximity
🌺Grumpy vs. sunshine
🌺Story of my heart.
This beautiful cover, hinting at all the fun things inside the book, was illustrated by the phenomenal artist Alex Cabal who's designed covers for Bethany C. Morrow, Lillie Vale, and Nafiza Azad.
This book and series means so much to me. It's my family's story -- of a multi-generational Mexican-American family and the community they love in Kansas -- told with my spin: escapist plotlines, high heat, and lots of fantasy, fun, and emotion.
Guapo pobrecito her grandmother calls him. The “poor handsome man.”
Professor Jeremiah Post, the poor handsome man, is in fact standing in the way of Alejandra “Alex” Torres turning Loretta’s, her grandmother’s bar, into a viable business. The hot brainiac who sleeps in one of the upstairs tenant rooms already has all of her Mexican American family’s admiration; she won’t let him have the bar and building she needs to resurrect her career, too.
Alex blowing into town has rocked Jeremiah to his mild-mannered core, but the large, boisterous Torres clan is everything he never had. He doesn’t believe Alex has the best interest of her family, their community or the bar’s legacy in mind. To protect all three, he’ll stand up to the tough and tattooed bartender with whom he now shares a bedroom wall—and resist the insta-lust they both feel.
But when an old enemy threatens Loretta’s and the surrounding neighborhood, Alex and Jeremiah must combine forces. It will take her might and his mind to save the home they both desperately need.