Kit Coltrane is a Baltimore hon with an Irish heart.
Her debut novel, All the Way Happy, is available from all major booksellers and Harlequin.com.
When Kit was in her early 30s, she found herself asking, “Is this all there is?” She had studied Theatre Performance at the Baltimore School for the Arts… and gave it up. She studied Literary Fiction at Johns Hopkins University… and then found careers doing anything but that. She had a small crafting business; she taught Shakespeare to middle schoolers; she even tried her hand at painting (it didn’t go well). That question absolutely haunted her, and she sat down and wrote one sentence…
“He was 37. Fuck. He was 37.”
“He wanted to burn the world down.”
Theodore Beaumont
And then…
…a romance novel happened.
All the Way Happy is a novel about being true to yourself. About coming to terms with the hardest parts of your life.
It’s about being young and wild and foolish, and about being older and hungry for something better.
All the Way Happy is a love story - love which is imperfect, difficult, colored by the past, impossible to let go.
Kit has wild plans for a series of novels in this universe, taking her from Baltimore to Paris, London, Amsterdam, San Francisco… from high school to college to young adulthood and old age. Currently, she is working on the second novel, a culinary romance set in New Orleans.
About the book…
Their differences made them enemies.
One summer tied them together forever.
From the moment Jack Gardner first laid eyes on Theodore Beaumont, he hated everything about him. Emanating wealth and icy perfection, Theo was everything Jack was not. Their time together at the elite Gwynns Academy changed them both, but it wasn't until a chance encounter the summer after graduation that the tension between them became palpable—unbearable.
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Seventeen years later, Jack’s and Theo’s worlds collide as they drop their sons off at Gwynns. Theo wants the kind of authentic life that requires confronting past lies—specifically the steamy summer affair he and Jack kept buried like a secret beneath the floorboards of their marriages.
Jack is…less than convinced.
Existing in the present and simultaneously in their shared past, in the richness of their memories and the way they once clung together, Jack and Theo struggle to reconcile the worlds they have built apart with their longing to be together—and the fear of being hurt all over again.