Dylan Aubrey

coming summer 2027

LESSONS IN ROMANCE

Everton University’s newest English postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Isabella Di Lorenzo, is on a mission to prove that romance novels belong on college curriculums. With funding from the Hannah Crawford Foundation, Bella plans to carve out a place in academia for the genre that has taken the literary world by storm, and she refuses to allow any skeptics to stand in her way... especially the traditionalist, pretentious, inconveniently handsome Professor Rhys Crawford.Rhys has a litany of reasons to dislike Bella before they even meet—namely, that his late mother’s foundation is funding research that will tarnish the legacy he has spent his entire adult life trying to uphold. Between a not-so-meet-cute during a late night elevator ride and a contentious debate at a faculty mixer, sparks fly and a rivalry is born.But when a permanent teaching position at Everton is on the line, Bella requests a ceasefire. A ceasefire that goes out the window during a heated round of bar trivia when she places a bet with Rhys—a bet that ends with a carefully curated syllabus for one-on-one lessons in romance. What Bella doesn’t expect, however, is that she may be the one who learns what it means to fall in love.

hi! i'm dylan

Originally from Ottawa, Ontario, Dylan spent her early twenties traveling and now calls a sprawling beachfront in Wales home. A lifelong lover of reading, she studied English Literature at Carleton University and has had at least one book on the go since. Dylan writes contemporary romance stories with tough heroines who navigate tumultuous times with humour and pluck. Her debut novel, LESSONS IN ROMANCE, will be published by Dell Romance in Summer 2027.