The Viking Romance Book Club: A Novel

She moved for a fresh start. She found a Viking romance book club instead.

When Gretchen Geller trades Brooklyn brownstones for Savannah humidity, she tells herself the change of scenery will do her good. She’ll find a new job soon. She’ll make new friends. She’ll feel like a grown-up, finally.

Then she meets a woman at her gym. Suddenly, Gretchen is swept into a weekly book club devoted to steamy historical romance novels. She finds escapism in the club’s next book, The Brides of the Rocky Isle, complete with brooding warriors and busty heroines who always seem to know exactly what they want. Between laughter, wine, and heated debates over fictional Norsemen, Gretchen begins to feel something she hasn’t in months: at home.

But real-life refuses to follow a tidy plotline. Far away, her fiercely independent mother begins showing early signs of slowing down—forcing Gretchen to confront the complicated, unromantic realities of caring for the people who once cared for you. As fiction and reality collide, Gretchen must decide what kind of heroine she wants to be in her own life.

Warm and witty, The Viking Romance Book Club is about love, friendship, and the books that change us.