Audrey Jessup, a successful romance novelist haunted by loss and known to the world as Misty Valen, travels to a grungy Edinburgh bar to meet Ian Carty, a volatile Northern Irish musician whose song is the key to the movie adaptation of her new book. Immune to persuasion, Ian denies her the license and degrades her career, sending Audrey back to her hermetic life in faraway coastal Oregon, plagued by self-doubt and the impending dissolution of her book contract. But Ian, incensed by his mother's reaction to the manuscript Audrey left behind, unexpectedly follows her across the ocean. Standing on her doorstep in the middle of the night, he exposes her deepest secrets and greatest fears. With her carefully constructed life torn open, Audrey must now confront her true identity and the profound sorrow she's buried, or face the end of her career. As Audrey tries to salvage her manuscript and reconcile her complicated relationship with Ian, she is called to travel to Northern Ireland and then Scotland, only to face her greatest challenge yet: finding love without loss. Lilt is a fast-paced, contemporary, character-driven novel that uses sharp dialogue, humor, and cultural insights to tell this floor-to-ceiling emotional journey of love, loss, family, and resilience.
