Whitney Cubbison
The Will There Be…? series is a set of interconnected, voice-driven novels about love in all its forms — romantic, platonic, familial. They explore the kind of romantic love that lasts a single moment or an entire lifetime, and the kind of love between friends and family that builds you back up when life breaks you down. Set across Europe's most storied cities — Paris, Ibiza, Rome, and London — these books earn their laughs and heartache in equal measure. Each can be read as a standalone; together, they share a single universe of recurring characters and overlapping lives. Readers of Emily Henry, Annabel Monaghan and Taylor Jenkins Reid will find their next favorite author here. Book three — Will There Be Time? — arrives in late 2026: a dual-POV second-chance romance set across London and Paris.
Welcome to Paris. The marriage is over. The dates are terrible. The friends and the wine are excellent.
Austen Keller was living her dream. She landed a career-defining job that moved her and her husband to Paris. Swoon! Shortly thereafter, she was divorced. Thud. This wasn't the plan. Yet there she was — pushing 40 and starting over.
A decade after she'd last been single, Austen enters the Parisian dating scene playing by a new set of rules in a different language, culture, and lingerie standards.
She experiences every type of miserable first date imaginable and lives to tell the tales of Pierre the Mansplainer, Simon the Snoozer, Emile the Over-Sharer, Guillaume of the Gym Shorts, and many more.
On most dates, she struggles to get past one glass of Bordeaux without wanting to bolt. Even worse, no one chases after her when she runs. It doesn't take long for her to realize that whoever said French men were romantic deserves a swift kick in the pants.
A rewarding and high-powered career. Check! Fabulous female friendships. Nailed it! True love. Umm?
Austen keeps asking herself: is "having it all" too much to ask?
Beneath the comedy is the question every woman who has started over knows: how do you rebuild a life when the one you planned isn't the one you got? This novel explores personal reinvention, the friends who help get you through it, and the inconvenient truth that love rarely arrives on the schedule you set.
A tragically hilarious novel about disastrous dates, cultural collisions, world travels, and wine.
A lot of wine.
This novel is inspired by the author's own life as an American divorcée navigating the cultural minefield of dating in an adopted country.
Will There Be Wine? is the first novel in the Will There Be…? series.
One marriage failing in Rome. One love just beginning in Paris. A birthday weekend in Ibiza. No one leaves unchanged.
A propulsive exploration of romantic and platonic love, commitment, shared history, betrayal, and personal reckoning.
To celebrate her fortieth birthday, Ophelia and her husband Gianluca gather an unlikely group of eight friends and lovers — some old, some new, some false, some true — for a long weekend in Ibiza. However, the idyllic villa setting may be the only thing holding together a complicated tangle of friendship, love, and betrayal.
Among the guests is Ophelia's old university flame, Matt, and his new girlfriend, Austen. While Matt finds himself falling in love, Austen is holding back, carefully protecting her heart. Ophelia knows she loves her husband, but "love" is a word she never learned to say, a silence rooted in a childhood tragedy. What she doesn't know is that Gianluca has been whispering it to someone else. And when his mistress crashes the party along with her own boyfriend, she brings a revelation that could unravel everything.
Across Rome, Paris, and Ibiza, the party guests navigate the tangled paths that bring people together and push them apart — exploring where love begins, where it falters, and the courage it takes to hold on — or to let go.
Readers have called this novel "cinematic," "a study in human relations," and a story that "made me stop and reflect on my own choices."
Especially praised by readers who normally avoid novels involving infidelity — for its realistic, honest, and un-romanticized portrayal which asks the hard questions about forgiveness, responsibility, and choice.
Will There Be Love? is the second novel in the Will There Be…? series.
