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LEASE ON LOVE

Falon Ballard

A down-on-her-luck young woman turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love.
After getting passed over for an overdue - and much needed - promotion, Sadie Green is in desperate need of three things: a stiff drink, a new place to live, and a one-night-stand. When one drink turns into one too many, Sadie mixes up a long-ignored dating app for a roommate-finding app and finds herself on the doorstep of Jack Thomas's gorgeous Brooklyn brownstone. Too bad she's more attracted to his impressive real estate than she is to the man himself.

Jack, still grieving the unexpected death of his parents, has learned to find comfort in video games and movie marathons instead of friends. So while he doesn't know just what to make of the vivaciously verbose Sadie, he's willing to offer her his spare bedroom while she gets back on her feet. And with the rent unbeatably low, Sadie can finally pursue her floristry side hustle full-time. The two are polar opposites, but as Sadie's presence begins to turn the brownstone into a home, they both start to realize they may have just made the deal of a lifetime.

Falon Ballard is a Los Angeles native who has been writing stories her whole life. After graduating with a degree in Creative Writing, Falon embarked on an eight-year teaching adventure before opening her own event planning business. When she's not trolling Etsy for the latest merch from her favorite fandoms, she's hanging out at Disneyland with a pretzel and beer in hand.
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Published 2022-02-01 by Putnam

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Lease on Love is a crackling, compulsively readable debut about forging new career and romantic paths, finding strength in found family, and discovering what it truly means to be 'home.' I enjoyed every minute of it!

It was bound to happen sometime: a comedy about accidentally mixing up two very different kinds of apps. When a woman drunkenly confuses a dating app with a roommate-finder app, she winds up impulsively signing a lease on a beautiful brownstone - and maybe accidentally finding love Read more...

Beach Read meets The Flatshare in this warmly funny and delightfully sharp debut rom-com about a down-on-her-luck young woman who turns an innocent mix-up between a dating app and a roommate app into a new chance at love. Read more...

This charming story of new beginnings and emotional growth has a sassy and likable narrator in Sadie, and the novel keeps a light tone despite touching on difficult subjects like toxic families and grief... Readers who enjoy female entrepreneurs, found family, and gentle romantic leads will enjoy.

LEASE ON LOVE is one of The Nerd Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 Katie Couric Media's New and Upcoming Books About Love to Read This Valentine's Day LifeSavvy's 21 New Books to Fall in Love with in February 2022

A hopeful, heartwarming debut. With a relatable disaster of a protagonist and an adorably nerdy hero, this opposites-attract, roommates-to-lovers romance is a true delight.

[A] quirky, heartwarming contemporary romance... Ballard's snappy prose and unconventional couple charm, and she gets some good chuckles out of skewering the New York City real estate market. Meanwhile, stellar supporting characters (especially Sadie's besties Gemma, Nick, and Harley) provide a solid underpinning to this enjoyable tale. This is a treat. Read more...

A girl shows up on a brownstone stoop to rent a room in Brooklyn. Sadie, who longs to have a side-hustle as a florist, moves in with Jack who is grieving the loss of his parents, playing video games, and watching movies to cope. Does what happens in Brooklyn stay in Brooklyn?! Read to find out what this real estate match made in heaven brings. Read more...

The romantic beats and the slow-burning attraction between [Sadie and Jack] are things to savor... Ballard sweetly explores the ways they complement one another and also how they hope to reinvent themselves following catastrophic personal changes. Read more...

...you'll be in for a fun and light read... Ballard intersperses the book with text conversations (emojis and all) between Sadie and Jack, as well as her group conversation with her friends, that make readers feel like they're really part of the story. When Sadie and Jack's feelings for one another are finally realized, you can't help but celebrate alongside the characters. Read more...

Sadie is a firecracker of a protagonist who's very aware of her flaws, and Jack is her perfect counterpart, embracing all of her rough edges with softness and understanding. Lease on Love warmly and wittily underscores that none of us are perfect, but we are all worthy, we are all enough: we all deserve to be loved, not just by others, but by ourselves too.

Lease on Love was a delight on every level. Ballard delivers a soft, sweet story with enough shadows to make the happily ever after feel that much more earned. Jack and Sadie together are real in the best ways and the cast of characters shows the unabiding love of friends and found family. This is a beautiful love story about finding something precious that seems out of reach. Lease on Love is one of my new favorite romance novels!

Ballard's debut novel, a fantastic read for fans of The Flatshare (2019), is a sharply funny roommates-to-lovers, opposites-attract rom-com... With profound sensitivity, Ballard shows how therapy and each other's company help Jack deal with his grief and Sadie with her low self-esteem and negative self-image. Read more...

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