Six Degrees of Separation

Six Degrees of Separation is hosted by Kate at booksaremyfavoriteandbest. A book is selected each month as the starting point for us to link to six other books. I go a bit rouge by selecting my own book from the previous months’ Five Star Friday, but still maintain the spirit of the meme.

This Month's Book

Heart the Lover by Lily King
Published by Grove Press on September 30, 2025
Age/Genres: Adult, Fiction
Rating: 
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You knew I’d write a book about you someday.

Our narrator understands good love stories—their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.

In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.

Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.

Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

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Heart the Lover

Heart the Lover is a story that takes part over many years. The early years, the college years, take place in North Carolina.  

Just Don't Fall

Just Don't Fall also takes place in North Carolina and is set in the world of Appies hockey. 

Rebel Bride

Rebel Bride is also set in the world of hockey, and the story features a runaway bride. 

800 Grapes

800 Grapes features a runaway bride and is set on a family vineyard. 

The Ex Vows

The Ex Vows centers around a wedding at a vineyard which reunites exes. 

Emergency Contact

Emergency Contact is a second chance romance between exes which takes place during the holiday season.

A Very Merry Matchup

A Very Merry Matchup is a sweet holiday romance where the matchmaker gets matched. 

Have you read any of these books?
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