Meet local author, Nikki Payne, and hear her discuss "Pride and Protest," a fresh and modern retelling of "Pride and Prejudice." A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighborhood. Audience Q and A and book signing to follow.
About "Pride and Protest":
Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighborhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smoldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly—but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she’ll settle for getting him out of her head.
At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he’s always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza’s protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes to realize this irresistible revolutionary is the most real woman he’s ever met.
About Nikki Payne:
By day, Nikki Payne is a curious Dr. of Anthropology in Big Tech. By night, she dreams of ways to subvert canon literature. Inspired by the classics, her romances turn expectations on their head and deliver social commentary for the hopeless romantic. Her debut novel Pride and Protest was hailed "incandescent" by the Washington Post. Her next novel Sex, Lies, and Sensibility is "Schitt's Creek" meets "Insecure" and is equal parts hot and heartwarming. Nikki Payne is a member of Smut U, a premium feminist writing collective, and is a cat lady with no cats.
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