New Release: On One Condition by K. Bromberg

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I love a good small town second chance. It’s even better when it forces two people with history to share air and eye contact. They have a dozen unspoken questions. The deluxe print edition of On One Condition by K. Bromberg is now live, and it is exactly that flavor of delicious tension. Think billionaire hero with carefully curated control who gets dragged back to a town full of old ghosts. Think fiercely capable heroine who built a life from grit and obligation, not from trust funds and private drivers. Toss them into Cedar Falls for sixty days with the mayor breathing down corporate necks. Add exclusive bonus content and sprayed edges. You get a romance made to curl up with and underline.

This edition comes with a special cover design, stenciled sprayed edges, and bonus material that will make collectors smile. If you have a shelf for pretty spines, you will want this one front facing. If seeing a first love makes your heart beat faster, you will want the story too.

I read the opening chapters with a silly grin and a knot in my stomach. Ledger Sharpe walks into Hank’s Bar with that big city aura. Asher Wells is behind the counter. She is pretending her hands are not shaking. It has been fifteen years. They have reasons to be wary. They also have that what if energy that takes over every cell. I love when a book knows exactly what it is about and throws you into the deep end right away. On One Condition does that with heat, humor, and the ache of unfinished business.

WHAT IT IS ABOUT

Ledger Sharpe is one third of the Sharpe triplets who run S.I.N. Sharpe International Network has bought an old hotel in Cedar Falls. They have turned it into a luxe mountain resort, The Retreat. The city council stalls the opening with a very specific condition. A founding board member must live in town for two months. This is to prove the company will invest locally and can respond quickly. Ledger draws the short straw. He is a planner with a ten year road map. He has a habit of keeping feelings tucked behind a precise suit jacket. He is also the boy who once fell in love beneath a willow tree.

Asher Wells never left Cedar Falls the way she once planned. Life rerouted her dreams with family illness, grief, and the hard economics of staying afloat. She is smart and stubborn. She can calm a whole room with a look. When Ledger shows up at the bar where she is filling in for a friend, she recognizes him instantly. The attraction is instant. The anger is real. The past did not end cleanly. Neither of them knows the whole truth.

Forced proximity is the name of the game. Ledger has to weather small town politics, manage a high profile project, and survive a tidal wave of memories. Asher has to protect the life she built while fielding old feelings that refuse to stay buried. They trade barbs and soft smiles. They misread each other, then slowly start to talk. And because this is Bromberg, there is steam. There is heart. There is also a big question. Can love survive the weight of history? Can it endure the glare of public pressure?

WHY I CAN’T WAIT

If you are trope motivated, welcome to the buffet.

• Second chance romance with real teeth.
• Small town setting with politics and personality, not just pie.
• Billionaire hero who learns to show up without swagger.
• Forced proximity through a time boxed residency.
• He fell first and stayed gone for reasons that still hurt.
• She stayed and carried the weight that growing up requires.
• Teen first love flashbacks that inform adult chemistry.
• Found family via siblings and coworkers.
• An honest argument about tourism, local jobs, and the cost of growth.

I am forever weak for second chance stories that let both characters be right about their pain. Ledger is not just a billionaire with a plane and an ego. He is a man who learned to show perfection for a father who measured worth in metrics and headlines. Asher is not the small town girl waiting around. She kept a farm running. She arranged elder care. She learned to advocate for herself with the same tenacity she once used to sketch landscapes at the lake. When they clash, it is not because the plot needs a fight. It is because their worldviews collide in interesting ways. Privilege meets proximity to survival. Corporate schedule meets the rhythm of seasonal work. Want meets fear.

I also love that the book opens with immediacy. We get teenage tenderness in the prologue, then the current day collision. The dialogue is banter-focused and intimate. The bar scene is cinematic. You can smell the beer taps and feel the hush when Ledger recognizes Asher’s voice. Bromberg threads in small town texture without turning the locals into caricatures. There is a mayor with ambitions. The community is divided on change. There is a long memory of who used to belong to whom.

And let me be honest. I am a sucker for pretty paper. The sprayed edges and stenciled art make this edition a giftable object. If you love annotated book swaps or just enjoy being extra, this one will photograph beautifully. Pair it with a candle that smells like cedar and citrus and you have a whole mood.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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K. Bromberg is a New York Times bestselling author known for emotionally intelligent, high heat contemporary romance. She delivers heroines with grit and heroes who have to earn their way back to good. Since debuting in 2013, she has sold more than two million books across twenty countries. She has appeared on major bestseller lists over thirty times. When she is not writing, she is wrangling teenagers. She also cheers for sports, pets dogs, and proves that procrastination can coexist with productivity. She lives in Southern California and writes stories that make you work for the happily ever after. If you want heat with heart, you are in the right catalog.

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Do you reach for billionaire romances when they come with small town stakes? Or do you prefer blue collar stories in your mountain towns? What is your favorite second chance moment in fiction. The crackling bar reunion. The porch conversation at midnight. The work site argument that turns into honesty. Tell me what you love, and if you have a favorite K. Bromberg book, I want your starter recommendations for readers new to her back list.