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Product details
- ISBN 9781648985621
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 09 Jul 2026
- Publisher: City Owl Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What if your love story rewrote you?
Romance author Lacy Travers’s career is flatter than the champagne at her last pity party. So when a disgruntled fan accuses her of “ruining love” at a sad little book signing—and her ex-boyfriend Elliott swoops in like a knight in polyester armor—it’s just another weird chapter in her life.
But things take a surreal turn when a party invite lands her not in Elliott’s apartment... but in an operating room. As the surgeon. In a world straight out of one of her books.
Trapped in her own romance novel—with no clue how to escape—Lacy must survive cringey tropes, steam-soaked plot twists, and the very clichés she once mocked. When Elliott gets pulled into the chaos too, the two must navigate vampire seductions, cowboy duels, and more than a few forced proximity scenes.
The real kicker? The more they rewrite the story, the more the story rewrites them.
With every sizzling page turned, Lacy begins to question the love she’s always written off—and the nerdy sci-fi writer who’s been beside her all along.
The Romance Loop is a laugh-out-loud, genre-hopping romantic comedy—a story about messy hearts, meta love, and the unexpected magic of a story you never saw coming.
Mary Shotwell is the author of small-town love stories with happily-ever-afters for all seasons. Her debut romance novel Christmas Catch (Carina Press, 2018) was a Golden Leaf Finalist and earned a starred review from Library Journal. She loves incorporating her science and nature background into her fiction. When adulting, she’s a wife to husband Matt and mother to three children. She currently resides in Tennessee.
