Welcome to Paris. The marriage is over. The dates are terrible. The friends and the wine are excellent.
For readers of Emily Henry, Annabel Monaghan, and Taylor Jenkins Reid — voice-driven women's fiction that is light-hearted but never lightweight. Book 1 of the Will There Be…? series.
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 — an interconnected universe of voice-driven, upmarket women’s fiction set across Europe's most storied cities. Followed by Will There Be Love? and Will There Be Time?, expected in late 2026. Each can be read as a standalone.