Extra! Extra!: Atria Books Announces Two-book Deal with Author Karina Halle

Exciting news for fans of USA Today bestselling author Karina Halle. 

Atria Books Press Release:

(May 30, 2014 – New York, NY) Atria Books is thrilled to announce a two-book deal with USA Today bestselling author of the runaway hit, LOVE, IN ENGLISH, Karina Halle. The new books will both be contemporary romance standalones that deal with finding love while traveling abroad, just like LOVE, IN ENGLISH.

As Halle says, “the first book in the series is about Vera’s brother, the hot, tatted artist Josh, who falls for a mysterious girl who leads him on an adventure in New Zealand. The second book is about a girl who finds love on the steamy beaches of Brazil!” As with LOVE, IN ENGLISH, Halle will take readers on a turbulent, emotional and sexy journey in these new and exotic settings, with “flawed yet lovable characters.

Atria plans to release simultaneous e-book and trade paperbacks for the first book in the Spring of 2015. Atria Editor Jhanteigh Kupihea says, “We’re so excited to welcome Karina to the Atria family. Her characters are refreshingly real, her settings beautifully observed, and her writing resonant and witty. We look forward to helping contemporary romance, new adult, and women’s fiction readers discover new stories by this remarkably gifted author.”

Pretty exciting, right? The only thing missing from this news, though, is the title of the first book. And for that, Karina needs YOUR help! Head on over to her website and vote for your favorite title by clicking here.

We can’t wait to see what you all choose!

AUTHOR BIO: Karina Halle is a former travel writer and music journalist and theUSA Today bestselling author of Love, in English, The Artists Trilogy, and other wild and romantic reads. She lives in a 1920s farmhouse on an island off the coast of British Columbia with her husband and her rescue pup, where she drinks a lot of wine, hikes a lot of trails, and devours a lot of books. Visit Karina at authorkarinahalle.com.

So head on over to Halle's website to vote on your favorite title choice for the new book.

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Love, In English

Published: April 20th 2014

Publisher: Metal Blonde Books

 

A standalone, contemporary romance about the ultimate forbidden love...

He’s thirty-eight. I’m twenty-three.

He speaks Spanish. I speak English.

He lives in Spain. I live in Canada.

He dresses in thousand-dollar suits. I’m covered in tattoos.

He’s married and has a five-year old daughter.

I’m single and can’t commit to anyone or anything.

Until now.Because when they say you can’t choose who you fall in love with, boy ain’t that the damn truth.

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To a restless dreamer like Vera Miles, it sounded like the experience of a lifetime. Instead of spending her summer interning for her astronomy major, she would fly to Spain where she’d spend a few weeks teaching conversational English to businessmen and women, all while enjoying free room and board at an isolated resort. But while Vera expected to get a tan, meet new people and stuff herself with wine and paella, she never expected to fall in love.

Mateo Casalles is unlike anyone Vera has ever known, let alone anyone she’s usually attracted to. While Vera is a pierced and tatted free spirit with a love for music and freedom, Mateo is a successful businessman from Madrid, all sharp suits and cocky Spanish charm. Yet, as the weeks go on, the two grow increasingly close and their relationship changes from purely platonic to something…more.

Something that makes Vera feel alive for the first time.

Something that can never, ever be.

Or so she thinks.