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In a Desert Daze by Theresa Christine
Cover Reveal: March 11th 2026
Release Day: May 7th 2026
Tropes: Estranged Friends to Lovers, Small Town in California’s Mojave Desert, Childhood Friends, He’s a Yearner, Cinnamon Roll MMC, Let’s just do it once to get it out of our systems, Grief Rep, Caretaker, Vibrator Play, He Falls First & Harder, Dual Timeline, “Good Girl”, Just for the Summer.
Series: This is Book 2 in a series of interconnected standalones. No cliffhanger. Readers do not have to read Book 1 to enjoy this.
POV: Dual POV, 1st Person.
Content Warnings: Grief related to the death of a parent (death mentioned but not shown). Pregnancy (this is not a surprise or accidental pregnancy book; pregnancy is only mentioned). For readers 18+.
Expected Page Count: 400
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Daisy Johnson is hellbent on keeping her late mother’s hotel in the California desert alive, despite costly renovations and vacation rentals sucking business dry. She can handle everything on her own just fine, thank you, but she falters when her childhood best friend returns home. He’s the boy she encouraged to chase his dreams eight years ago, even though those dreams took him away from her.
After a scandal crushes Max Weber’s art curator career, he has no choice but to return to Harlow, California, and plan his comeback. Once eager to escape his hometown and disapproving parents, he always found refuge in Daisy—so he’s surprised to find her so guarded now. Even with oceans and years apart, he could never forget her. Surely, their back-and-forth voicemails were proof of that…
Max and Daisy team up to salvage her hotel and his career, and while the project only goes until the end of the summer—he’ll leave, and she’ll stay—they can’t get each other out of their systems. As they reignite a spark they’ve both long ignored, the two must face what broke them apart and what’s still holding them together.
In a Desert Daze is a spicy childhood friends to lovers romance set in a small desert town, perfect for fans of the estranged friends to lovers in It's Different This Time by Joss Richard, the hopelessly devoted male main character in Savor It by Tarah Dewitt, and the heart and heat of Jessica Joyce books.