Hearts on Fire: On Queer Romance Novels with Alexandria Bellefleur, Jennifer Dugan, Kosoko Jackson, and Cat Sebastian

Looking for your next romance fix after Heated Rivalry? Join us in February for an evening with Alexandria Bellefleur, Jennifer Dugan, Kosoko Jackson, and Cat Sebastian, four celebrated voices in contemporary queer fiction whose latest novels explore love, reinvention, and the stories we tell to survive and begin again. Together, these authors present bold, heartfelt stories that blur genre and revel in desire, humor, and emotional risk. A book signing with all four authors will follow the event.

Featured Novels:

In Playing for Keeps, Alexandria Bellefleur delivers a high-energy, deeply sexy sapphic rom-com amid the glittering chaos of celebrity culture. When two rival publicists are forced to work together after their mega-famous clients begin a very public romance, professional tension quickly gives way to undeniable attraction. Bellefleur’s novel explores loyalty, ambition, and the risks we take when love refuses to stay off the record.

Jennifer Dugan’s Anderson in Bloom follows a reclusive former child star living a quiet life as a florist until her ex-girlfriend and former costar reappears with plans for a tell-all memoir. Witty, sexy, and emotionally charged, Dugan’s novel explores fame, betrayal, and the electric pull of love that never fully fades.

In A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Kosoko Jackson delivers a sharp romantic comedy set in a small Maine town, where recently dumped Xavier Reynolds finds himself working in a restaurant kitchen alongside Logan O’Hare, a brilliant (but frustrating) single dad. What begins as friction slowly turns into something warmer in this moving story about intimacy, ambition, and second chances.

In Star Shipped, Cat Sebastian brings her signature slow-burn tenderness to a contemporary enemies-to-lovers romance between two feuding costars on a long-running sci-fi show. A fake friendship and reluctant road trip force them to confront misconceptions and the possibility that connection has been waiting in plain sight all along.