Bookstore Romance Day 2024

On Saturday August 17, 2024, join us at The Haunted Bookshop in Mobile, AL for a special day featuring author Alexandra Vasti and her debut novel, NE’RE DUKE WELL, a steamy regency romp with irresistible chemistry and scandals galore. We’re also celebrating your love stories with the Love Story Project and offering Book Bouquet Bundles with Petal & Groove Flower Bar.

Here’s all the details for your romantic date with your favorite bookstore:

• Browse our extensive romance section, filled with all the spice, HEAs, enemies to lovers, and hot book-boyfriends you want
• Read submissions to the Love Story Project posted throughout our store (details to submit to the project below)
• Meet author Alexandra Vasti from 2-4pm as she chats with readers and signs copies of her new and steamy regency romance
• Treat yourself to a book bouquet bundle of NE’RE DUKE WELL and a fresh bouquet from Petal & Groove Flower Bar – $35 (plus tax) for the pair!
• Enjoy a kiss from a bookseller – a Hershey’s kiss!

Do you have a love story to share? Share it to our LOVE STORY PROJECT. Submit your 75-words or less love story here. Stories can be true or fiction. Guessing which stories are true and which stories are pure fantasy is half the fun of the project.

Don’t miss your chance to celebrate love with us. Bookstore Romance Day 2024 is August 17th, 11am-8pm. Remember to save a little love for Mr. Bingley because our kitty cat loves love, too.

ABOUT ALEXANDRA VASTI

ALEXANDRA VASTI is a British literature professor who has loved historical romance since age 11. After finishing her PhD at Columbia University in NYC, she moved to New Orleans, where she lives with her very large and noisy family. Ne’er Duke Well is her first novel.

ABOUT NE’RE DUKE WELL

In this steamy Regency romp, Lady Selina is determined to find the Duke of Stanhope the perfect wife—the only problem is she’s starting to think that might be her.
Peter Kent—newly inherited Duke of Stanhope and recently of New Orleans, Louisiana—must become respectable. Between his radical politics and the time he interrupted a minor royal wedding with a flock of sheep—not his fault!—he’s developed a scandalous reputation at odds with his goal of becoming guardian to his half siblings. For help, he turns to the cleverest and most managing woman of his acquaintance, Lady Selina Ravenscroft.

Selina is society’s most proper debutante, save one tiny secret: she runs an erotic circulating library for women. When Peter asks for her help, she suggests courtship and marriage to a lady of unimpeachable reputation. (Which is to say, definitely not herself.)

But matchmaking doesn’t go according to plan. Peter’s siblings run rampant on Bond Street. Selina ends up in the Serpentine. And worst of all, the scorching chemistry between Peter and Selina proves impossible to resist. For the disreputable duke and his unpredictable matchmaker, falling in love just might be the ultimate scandal.