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You know what his truth was? He was so fucking bored. He was so bored with everything he’d built, he had to churn to build new stuff, to sell more, to be a bigger genius.

— Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms: A Novel (Ballantine Books, July 8, 2025)

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As he pulled her in for a final kiss, wrapping her in his embrace as their breathing began to slow, a tempting thread of something like belonging coiled through her, and she realized this was what she’d remember about this day forever. And what a gift that would be.

— Sarah MacLean, These Summer Storms: A Novel (Ballantine Books, July 8, 2025)

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"Sarah Maclean tends to take real historical events and societal mores and twist them to modern mores and ethics and I love that. I see a lot of complaints about it, mostly I sometimes think, because people haven’t stopped to study the history behind the eras they read. I find her settings immediately recognizable. I tend to worry more when people complain about historical accuracy because it’s outside the norm of what they typically see in historical romance. The marry young/lady’s a virgin/women don’t work outside the home/boy there were huge age gaps everywhere got a lot of story time and press because they were values society wanted to promulgate, but were really only practiced or able to be practiced by a very, very narrow margin of people; typically white and middle class. The lower classes and people of color didn’t have the luxury, the artists, philosophers, criminals, and world changers didn’t want to, and the upper classes didn’t have to. The immigrants, Catholics, Jews, people of color, and people of color who are now considered white weren’t allowed to. But most readers reject those other histories because they haven’t delved deeply enough into real history to know all of that other history even exists."

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I love that I can get the romance cover without having to buy a separate edition.

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"Sarah MacLean swooping in to make me excited about books again."

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The BFF Bookcast talks These Summer Storms.

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“A lot of people don’t read epilogues, but those words are there for a reason. Here’s what the epilogue is doing for a true romance reader. It gives you proof that happily ever after happened. You don’t wish babies on anyone and I don’t either, your body your choice ladies….but….but I love a baby in an epilogue because it sort of flags that we’re in the future, this couple will have a legacy – in 1000 years there will be more Josie and Runes right running around. But so that said, that’s weird and I get the problematic nature of that. We can talk about that in another episode. But in this particular case, what Kresley is giving us is a glimpse of happily ever after for these two. This is like four pages of pure domestic idle. They’re in this house, reading books. smooching, joking, getting a little frisky. And it’s lovely. Even though outside the door. Something is brewing.”

— Sarah Maclean, on Sweet Ruin and the importance of epilogues

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