April 22, 2024
Angyal turns to the enemies-to-lovers trope in her adorable second ballet romance (after Pas de Don’t). New York Ballet corps de ballet dancer Carly Montgomery’s trip to Sydney, Australia, to be maid of honor for her best friend, Heather Hays, gets off to a rough start when she accidentally runs a man over with her airport luggage cart—and he’s so rude about it! Things get worse when she’s later introduced to him as the groom’s best man, Nick Jacobs. The pair agree to keep their mutual ire under wraps for their friends’ sakes and play nice as they attend to various wedding tasks. They grow closer when Nick, a professional dance photographer and former premier dancer, agrees to Carly’s request to photograph her for social media as part of her campaign to be promoted to soloist. Nick and Carly traverse Sydney’s one-of-a-kind beaches taking striking shots that cause her social media following to skyrocket—and along the way their enmity transforms into intense attraction. But when Carly learns that Nick overplayed his success as a photographer, their whirlwind romance may be at an end. Angyal’s intimate familiarity with the ballet world shines through and it’s easy to cheer on her flawed, three-dimensional characters. This is a page-turner.