Wilder christina lauren6/29/2023 “We just couldn’t imagine writing a book that took place in an office or a coffee shop,” Hobbs said. Their perspectives changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, when California - where Billings is based - went back on lockdown. When they started writing, the main characters’ roles were reversed, with Lily a city woman and Leo the makeshift treasure hunter. “I think we’ve had the most fun writing that book of any books that we’ve ever written,” Billings said. Then Leo Grady, a long-lost love, shows up with a group of friends to take one of her tours, and the spark of reconnection sets Lily and Leo off on a wild ride. The heroine, Lily Wilder, uses her father’s hidden (and fake) treasure maps to guide tourists through the red rock canyons of southern Utah. They started writing it in 2021, based on an idea each writer said they’ve had for a long time but never really knew what to do with until now. ( “Autoboyography,” published in August 2018, is a coming-of-age LGBTQ romance set in Provo “In a Holidaze,” published in October 2020, is a Christmas love story that happens in Park City.) “Something Wilder” is the pair’s third romance novel set in Utah. (Gallery Books | Simon & Schuster) The cover of Christina Lauren's upcoming romance release, "Something Wilder." Romance in the red rocks
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