Delilah Green Doesnt Care

I didn't expect to love Delilah Green Doesn't Care as much as I did, but whew, much like Delilah and Claire eventually discover, love finds you at unexpected times. This may sound cliché, but while reading this romance novel, I laughed, I cried, and frankly, I grew as a person and as a reader. With Delilah Green Doesn't Care, Ashley Herring Blake asks the reader "How much of our core memories are actually true? Do we always remember things correctly, and if we don't, are we okay with looking inward at ourselves and our loved ones?" Funny, refreshing, steamy, and full of heart, I am glad to say that I cared about Delilah Green very much.  Recommended By Katherine M., Powells.com

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love — with all its complications — by debut author Ashley Herring Blake.

Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls — nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. Her life is in New York, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. Sure, it's a different woman every night, but that's just fine with her.

When Delilah's estranged stepsister, Astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five-figure check, Delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. She plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees Claire Sutherland, one of Astrid's stuck-up besties, and decides that maybe there's some fun (and a little retribution) to be had in Bright Falls, after all.

Having raised her eleven-year-old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, Claire Sutherland depends upon a life without surprises. And Delilah Green is an unwelcome surprise... at first. Though they've known each other for years, they don't really know each other — so Claire is unsettled when Delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push. When they're forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations — including a plot to save Astrid from her horrible fiancé — Claire isn't sure she has the strength to resist Delilah's charms. Even worse, she's starting to think she doesn't want to...

"Blake's smart and sexy first foray into adult after years of publishing gorgeous Sapphic middle grade and young adult." — Buzzfeed

"A fun hometown romance, planned as the start of a series of Bright Falls-set queer romances." — Library Journal (Starred Review)

"Blake captures all the complications of family, friendship, and romance with humor and heart." — Kirkus Reviews

Ashley Herring Blake is the author of the young adult novels Suffer Love, How to Make a Wish, and Girl Made of Stars (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and the middle grade novels Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World, The Mighty Heart of Sunny St. James, and Hazel Bly and the Deep Blue Sea (Little, Brown). You can find her on Twitter and Instagram at @ashleyhblake and on the web at ashleyherringblake.com. She lives in Georgia.