Seven Days in June

Eva Mercy has built a careful life — single mom, bestselling author, professional armor intact. Shane Hall has disappeared into literary myth. When they collide at a New York book event, the spark between them is instant, and for everyone watching, inexplicable. What no one knows is that twenty years ago, these two teenagers burned through seven days together that neither has ever fully left behind. The push and pull of their reunion carries real weight: two people who found each other once at exactly the wrong time, now circling each other again with more to lose.

Williams writes romance with an unusual literary self-awareness — her characters are writers themselves, and the novel plays with the idea that sometimes the most honest thing you say to someone is buried inside fiction. The prose is sharp and often funny, the secondary characters have actual personalities, and the Brooklyn setting feels lived-in rather than decorative. What distinguishes this book is how Williams balances heat with genuine emotional specificity: the longing here isn't abstract, it's rooted in who these two people actually are and what they've each been carrying.