Kendall Ryan is an American novelist, born in 1981, whose contemporary romances have become a habit for a very large number of readers. She writes in the register the genre knows instantly: close first person, alternating between the two leads, the emotional temperature high and the pacing engineered for a single long sitting rather than a fortnight of dipping in.
Her preferred ground is the workplace and the locker room. Athletes, single fathers, colleagues who ought to know better: Ryan likes a set-up in which two people have an excellent professional reason to keep their hands to themselves and a far better personal reason not to. What lifts the books above their premises is her ear for banter and her willingness to let both leads be genuinely awkward some time before they are allowed to be genuinely happy.
She is a fixture of the romance bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic, and audio has become one of the natural homes for her work, where the dialogue is delivered rather than skimmed.
8 hours and 48 minutes
