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Sweet Thing (2013)
Others: Positive "Mia Kelly thinks she has it all figured out. She's an Ivy League graduate, a classically trained pianist, and the beloved daughter of a sensible mother and offbeat father. Yet Mia has been stalling since graduation, torn between putting her business degree to use and exploring music, her true love. When her father unexpectedly dies, she decides to pick up the threads of his life while she figures out her own. Uprooting herself from Ann Arbor to New York City, Mia takes over her father's cafe, a treasured neighborhood institution that plays host to undiscovered musicians and artists. She's denied herself the thrilling and unpredictable life of a musician, but a chance encounter with Will, a sweet, gorgeous, and charming guitarist, offers her a glimpse of what could be. When Will becomes her friend and then her roommate, she does everything in her power to suppress her passions--for him, for music--but her father's legacy slowly opens her heart to the possibility of something more. A "heartbreaking and romantic" debut (Aestas Book Blog), Sweet Thing explores the intensity and complexities of first love and self-discovery"-- "A contemporary new adult romance novel about a woman who runs a cafe in New York's East Village and her romance with an up and coming musician"--
- ISBN:
- 9781476763934
- Length:
- 310 pages
Genres: romance
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