An American in London by Louise Bay
Releasing June 24, 2025
Rating: LOVED

There’s so much to love about An American in London: multiple meet-cutes (or meet-grumps), tension and pull, character growth, funny moments and storylines….

Tuesday is a New York banker trying to keep her job when her company merges with a UK bank. She’s also reeling from her fiancé breaking the engagement to run off with a ballerina. The company sends her to London to prove herself, and the pressure is on. She doesn’t have much savings and needs to find a new Manhattan apartment when she gets back to NY.

Broody billionaire (and tall, dark and handsome) Ben is laser-focused on achieving his goals, one of which is to buy a hotel group from a reticent duke. Not only is the duke reluctant to sell and doesn’t need the money, he’d only consider a family buyer who would treat the hotel as a legacy to pass down. When Ben receives a coveted invitation to the duke and duchess’ shooting weekend for himself and a plus-one, desperate measures are in order and here comes the fake engagement!

But the real tension is there from the start in An American in London! The instant grumpy-sunshine tension and sparks pulled me right in, and you could just feel the chemistry throughout the book. Watching these two completely different personalities interact, grow, get under each other’s skin, and get together. Tuesday helps Ben open up and reveal his softer, gentler side; he helps her stop living her life to please others and start going after what she wants.

An American in London’s  narration was fantastic too! I loved @erinmallon as a narrator—she handled all the different voices with ease and had a really nice manner that fit the main character beautifully.

Thank you to @brilliancepublishing and @netgalley for my advance copy. All thoughts and opinions are mine.

Rating: 4.6
Themes and Tropes: Fake engagement, grumpy-sunshine, only one bed, billionaire, so much chemistry, fun banter
Steam: Medium 
Pair With: Your favorite cocktail

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