AUDREY & BASH ARE JUST FRIENDS
A sweet, funny, electrifying story of first love and summer romance
​MEET AUDRE. Junior class president. Debate team captain. Unofficial student therapist. Desperately in need of a good time.
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MEET BASH. Mysterious new senior. Everybody’s crush. Tall, floppy, great taste in jewelry. King of having a good time.
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It’s the last day of school at Cheshire Prep, Brooklyn’s elite academy—and Audre Mercy-Moore’s life is a mess. Her dad cancelled her annual summer visit to his Malibu beach house. Now? She’s stuck in a claustrophobic apartment with her mom, stepdad, and one-year-old sister (aka the Goblin Baby).
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Under these conditions, she’ll never finish writing her self-help book—ie, the key to winning over Stanford’s admissions board.
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Cut to Bash Henry! Audre hires him to be her “fun consultant.” His job? To help her complete the Experience Challenge—her list of five wild dares designed to give her juicy book material. She’ll get inspo; he’ll get paid. Everybody wins.
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He isn’t boyfriend material. And she’s not looking for one. Can they stay professional despite their obvious connection?
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SCORCHING-HOT SUMMER. SCORCHING-HOT CHEMISTRY. But Audre and Bash can’t forget—they’re just friends.
A LOVE SONG FOR RICKI WILDE
One florist. One pianist. One love story…
One hundred years in the making.
​Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them. As the impulsive, artistic daughter of a powerful Atlanta dynasty, she’s the opposite of her famous socialite sisters. Where they’re long-stemmed roses, she’s a dandelion: an adorable bloom that’s actually a weed, born to float wherever the wind blows. In her bones, she knows that a more exiting life awaits her, elsewhere.
When a regal nonagenarian, Ms. Della, invites her to rent the bottom floor of her Harlem brownstone, Ricki jumps at the chance to escape her family—and realize her dream of opening a flower shop. And just beneath the surface of her new neighborhood, the music, stories and dazzling drama of the Harlem Renaissance still simmers.
One evening in February as the heady, curiously off-season scent of night-blooming jasmine fills the air, Ricki encounters a handsome, deeply mysterious stranger who knocks her world off balance in the most unexpected way.
Set against the backdrop of modern Harlem and Renaissance glamour, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is a steamy, swoon-worthy love story of two passionate artists drawn to the magic of New York—and whose lives are irreversibly linked.
Praise for "A Love Song for Ricki Wilde"
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“Funny, sexy, and breathtakingly romantic. Another rapturous knockout from Tia Williams.” – NYT bestselling author Emily Henry
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“Sparkling, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny…Ezra and Ricki's love story is one for the ages.” – NPR
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“Dazzling prose…a romance steeped in magic.” – The New York Times
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“A showstopper.” – Publisher’s Weekly (starred review)
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“A love letter to Harlem.” – Library Journal (starred review)
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“Punchy and poignant, sweeping but so intimate.” – NYT bestselling author, Kennedy Ryan
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“The hottest thing you’ll read all winter. Another Tia Williams classic.” – Cosmopolitan
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“A love story with a dash of magical realism that will sweep you off your feet.” – Amazon Book Review
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Accolades
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Instant USA Today bestseller
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A Most Anticipated Book of 2024: Marie Claire • BookPage • The Today Show • Town & Country • Entertainment Weekly • Goodreads • Cosmopolitan
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A Best New Book of February: People
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A Best Book of 2024: The New York Times • Amazon
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A Favorite Audible Beach Read: Sunny Hostin, The View
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#1 Summer Beach Read: Jenna Bush Hager, Good Morning America Book Club
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#1 Bestseller in 20th Century Historical Romance: Amazon
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NY Public Library Book of the Day​​​
SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE
Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again…
Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can’t deny their chemistry—or the fact that they’ve been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.
Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect—but Eva’s wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered…
With its keen observations of creative life in America today, as well as the joys and complications of being a mother and a daughter, Seven Days in June is a hilarious, romantic, and sexy-as-hell story of two writers discovering their second chance at love.
Praise for "Seven Days in June"
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“Seven Days in June had me laughing out loud and crying with the characters as their hearts are broken and healed. I absolutely loved it.” – Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things
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“A smart, sexy testament to tragic romances that mature into second chances. I loved it.” – Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Two Ways and Small Great Things
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“A hugely satisfying romance that is electrifying and alive.” – Kirkus Review (Starred)
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“A winning romance.” – Publisher’s Weekly
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“The well-crafted love story alone would delight readers, but Williams also explores motherhood, womanhood, and the fine line between romance and heartache.” – Booklist
"Seven Days In June is nothing short of a good time.” – Michael Arceneaux, New York Times bestselling author of I Can't Date Jesus and I Don't Want To Die Poor​
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"Williams is a canny anthropologist of contemporary urban life." – Rumaan Alam, author of National Book Award finalist Leave the World Behind
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Accolades​
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NYT Bestseller??
A Best Book of 2021: NPR • Kirkus • Marie Claire • PopSugar • New York Public Library • Bustle • Reader’s Digest • Literary Hub
A Best Book of the Summer: Harper’s Bazaar • Oprah Daily • Shondaland • The Los Angeles Times • CBS News • PureWow • Good Housekeeping • BuzzFeed • theSkimm
A Best Romance of 2021: The Washington Post • USA Today • Vulture • Goodreads • BookPage • BuzzFeed • Happy Mag​​​
THE PERFECT FIND
Will a forty-year-old woman with everything on the line – her high-stakes career, ticking biological clock, bank account – risk it all for a lusty secret romance with the one person who could destroy her comeback?
Jenna Jones, former It-girl fashion editor, is desperate for a second chance. When she’s dumped and fired (in the same week), she takes a job working with her nemesis, the beyond-bitchy publisher of StyleZine.com – and soon realizes that’s she’s in over her head. She’s working with digital savants half her age, has never even “Twittered,” and her twenty-two-year old coworker’s driving her crazy. Wildly sexy with a scandalous secret identity, Eric Combs is off-limits – but too delicious too resist.
The Perfect Find is a blazing-hot, laugh-out-loud funny saga about star-crossed love and starting over.
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Now on Netflix!
Praise for "The Perfect Find"
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“A can’t-put-down page-turner. Our new favorite beach read.” – People StyleWatch
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"Adorable heroine. Great plot. A delightful book.” – Essence
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“The chemistry is so steamy!” – InStyle.com
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“The Perfect Find’s unyielding lightheartedness is the best gift a romance novel can give you.” – The Washington Post
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“I read this book in six hours in one sitting. I need a sequel!” – Luvvie Ajayi, New York Times bestselling author of I’m Judging You
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Accolades
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Adapted into a Netflix film starring and produced by Gabrielle Union
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African American Literary Award for Best Fiction
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Independent Publisher (IPPY) award for Multicultural Fiction
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AAMBC Book of the Year, 2017
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AALBC #1 Bestseller
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USA Best Book Award for African American Fiction
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Featured Beach Read: People, Essence, InStyle
IT CHICKS: SIXTEEN CANDLES
First-day-of-school buzz? So over. It’s the end of September, and the spotlight-loving, drama-obsessed It Chicks’ lives are getting juicier by the second.
Praise for "It Chicks: Sixteen Candles"​
“Williams, who has an ear for the way teens speak, has created a hip series filled with heart and sass.” – Essence​​​​​​
IT CHICKS
Welcome to Louis B. Armstrong, New York City’s most prestigious performing arts school, where the gifted, wanna-be starlets, and It Chicks are all on the rise. But when rehearsals give way to hot and heavy after-school sessions away from the barre and without the mic, the real drama begins.
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Meet the hottest cast in town: Tangie, the Dreamer. Skye the Drama Queen. Eden the Bombshell. Trey the Bad Boy. CJ the Thug with the Heart of Gold. Izzy the Wild Child. Regina the Silent Threat. And the Entourage: Marisol, Kamillah, Blackadocious, Vineet, and Lyle.
Praise for "It Chicks"​
“Over-the-top, lively fun.” – Publisher’s Weekly
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​“If you enjoyed Fame, you’re sure to dig It Chicks.” – American Cheerleader
THE ACCIDENTAL DIVA
Being a diva isn't all it's cracked up to be. Just ask Billie Burke. Brainy, beautiful, and at the top of her game, she's the beauty editor at the world's leading fashion magazine, where paying tribute to the perfect pink lip gloss is serious business. Trouble is, all this corporate climbing and party-hopping has left her with a long, lonely bout of celibacy.
Enter Jay Lane – a gorgeous performance artist who grew up in a tough part of Brooklyn, completely foreign to Billie. In no time, this beauty expert is caught in an affair that's as addictive and crazy as the city itself.
Praise for "The Accidental Diva"
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​​“Williams has a gift for sexy prose and an insider ear.” – Publisher’s Weekly
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“Former beauty editor Tia Williams scores big with this debut novel.” – Marie Claire
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“Keeping the chick lit genre afloat.” – San Francisco Chronicle​​​​​​