The American Roommate Experiment by Elena Armas

The American Roommate Experiment

A Novel

Elena Armas

Atria Books · Print & ebook · September 6, 2022

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more!

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Who it’s for
A contemporary romance with a clean, category-friendly hook and a steady, stay-up-later pull.
Genres
Romantic Comedy, Friends-to-Lovers Romance, Fake-Dating Romance
Published
Atria Books, September 6, 2022

About this book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Cosmopolitan, Goodreads, PopSugar, and more! From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly anticipated follow-up featuring Rosie Graham and Lucas Martín, who are forced to share a New York apartment. Rosie Graham has a problem. A few, actually. She just quit her well paid job to focus on her secret career as a romance writer.

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She hasn’t told her family and now has terrible writer’s block. Then, the ceiling of her New York apartment literally crumbles on her. Luckily she has her best friend Lina’s spare key while she’s out of town. But Rosie doesn’t know that Lina has already lent her apartment to her cousin Lucas, who Rosie has been stalking—for lack of a better word—on Instagram for the last few months. Lucas seems intent on coming to her rescue like a Spanish knight in shining armor. Only this one strolls around the place in a towel, has a distracting grin, and an irresistible accent. Oh, and he cooks. Lucas offers to let Rosie stay with him, at least until she can find some affordable temporary housing. And then he proposes an outrageous experiment to bring back her literary muse and meet her deadline: He’ll take her on a series of experimental dates meant to jump-start her romantic inspiration. Rosie has nothing to lose. Her silly, online crush is totally under control—but Lucas’s time in New York has an expiration date, and six weeks may not be enough, for either her or her deadline.

Why It Clicks

A contemporary romance with a clean, category-friendly hook and a steady, stay-up-later pull.

Come here for

  • roommate-to-romance chemistry
  • easy immersion, glossy contemporary pace

Expect

  • new-adult emotional beats
  • light, familiar romance rhythms

Where it sits

Fake-Dating Romance84%
Romantic Comedy57%
Friends-to-Lovers Romance47%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Contemporary Romance
  • Multicultural & Interracial Romance
  • Romantic Comedy
Authors
Elena Armas
Publisher
Atria Books
Published
September 6, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Contemporary Romance