"The Bookish Bandit" by Erica Dansereau and Britt Howard

Awww, what a cute romcom this is!  It feels as autumnal as a pumpkin spice latte, as New York City-esque as a bagel with lox, and as bookloving-ish as a bookstore with a cat.  

An aspiring author impulsively sends her novel to a big city publishing house.  It lands in the slush pile, where it catches the eye of the publishing house's heir apparent, who falls in love with the book and demands it get published.

But then... mistakes happen.  Identities get mixed up.  The book is published, but with the wrong author name on it!  Equally furious and forlorn, the real author rushes to New York to take on the publisher and force them to admit they've wronged her.  And then ends up starting to fall in love with some guy who works for the publisher... and you can see where this is going.  But that doesn't make it any less fun to see how everything gets unsnarled in the end!

One of the things I liked best about The Bookish Bandit was how naturally faith was woven into the story.  Never preachy, always organic, the Christian themes were an integral part of the characters and their behavior, and I applaud how well Dansereau and Howard did that.

Particularly Good Bits:

The nerves return, but in the rare form of butterflies rather than fear.  I marvel at the way this woman both unravels and remedies me at once (p. 166).

If This was a Movie, I Would Rate It: PG.  No cussing, no violence.  Some kissing and a great deal of swooning.  The main characters make it clear to each other and the readers that they will not be sharing a bedroom until they get married.  So, no smut, but definitely a 1960s rom com level of kissing and holding.

This is my 26th book read off my TBR shelves for the Mount TBR Reading Challenge.