When you see a shooting star, wish on it.

Writing has always been my escape, my passion, and my dream. People loving my stories was supposed to be the most fulfilling part of my career, but with my latest release being a critical disaster, I began to wonder if my books were worth reading at all. Are bad reviews really bad if they tell the truth?

"She writes sex like she's never experienced it before."

Maybe I was a fraud for writing steamy romance novels when my love life was at its best, lukewarm. Using your imagination apparently doesn't count for much when you're still a virgin. So on one drunken night, when I caught a shooting star, I wished for the men I had written to step off their pages.

I didn't expect them to start showing up in my small town. I definitely didn't expect to have a swoon-worthy meet-cute with a very real, non-fictional man, and nothing could have prepared me for Xander Cross. The unhinged assassin from the dark romance I wrote when I was sixteen who vowed to take the life of any man who touched me. Now that I knew what it meant for love to be written in the stars, would I become the hero of my story, or would I let chaos consume my reality?

How The Plot Thickens is a speculative, small-town romance with magical elements from the author of the highly rated Golden Peaks Country Club series. Joanna Kimber adds a light-hearted addition to her catalog with this parodical rom-com that playfully teases the tropes we all know and love while highlighting the parts that make romance special.