Lisa Kleypas

But that's – so that's The Glass Kitchen, another book I wasn't intending to talk about.

And then isn't there a Lisa – another Lisa in the contemporaries? Doesn't she have one where, like, she bakes cupcakes or something and can make people, like – Now I'm sort

of,

I don't remember, but I feel like there's maybe in that Friday Harbor series a cupcake situation.

Kleypas.

So, Lisa Kleypas has not

written a book in many, many years.

Many consider her the godmother of historical romance.

Yeah.

All the goodness of life.

And Lisa Kleypas sure does know how to write

a historical

I'm, I'm gonna get to that one before the end of the year.

Anyway, the next book that is on my radar for October is Queen of Lombard Street by my beloved Lisa Kleypas.

Queen of Lombard Street follows Reina Martin, a brilliant economics in-- economist, I mean, in Victorian England, who knows firsthand what it means for women to have no control over their own money.

Determined to change that, Reina sets out to create the first bank run entirely by women.

Soon, Reina must choose between protecting the mentor who helped her make the dream possible and protecting the working-class families who could lose everything.

Inspired by real women in financial history, this is the story about money, ambition, friendship, and women creating a different future, and it's out on October 20th.

I love Lisa Kleypas.

She is one of my OG romance writers.

I feel contractually obligated to

discuss It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas.

That's on my list, too.

And I also have a second historical that's set in autumn.

I, of course, had to pick a historical romance because I do love historical romance.

Married by Morning by Lisa Kleypas.

That is my favorite book of hers.

And she's the only historical romance author that I've deeply explored.

And this weekend, I got to visit a romance-themed bookshop in Charleston.

But getting to talk to other romance fans, I'm reminded of a book by Lisa Kleypas called Love in the Afternoon, where the plot is that a girl decides to respond to the letters of her friend's fiance in her place.

So the fiance is writing to her friend, and our main character is responding, pretending to be her, and they fall in love.

But the man who comes back to claim the woman in the letters is a very different person from who she was writing to.