# If Books Could Kill

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- Book: [If Books Could Kill](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-eberlen/if-books-could-kill) ([If Books Could Kill.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-eberlen/if-books-could-kill.md))
- Authors: [Kate Eberle](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-eberlen)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0597-978-8
- Published: 2026-06-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

She thought she was in a romance. Fate threw her into a thriller. Will happily-ever-after still be on the cards when fiction and reality blur for Roxie? When Roxie makes a tongue-in-cheek wish to live out the plot of her favourite author’s next novel, she has romance in mind — namely, the sweet, safe, swoon-worthy storylines Anna Matthews is known for. It should be a dream come true when her wish is granted by a mysterious busker. Except for one little hiccup: that dashing stranger tries to take her breath away. Literally. With a knife. The thing is, Roxie may be the new Anna Matthews protagonist — but this time, Anna is writing a crime thriller. Thrown into a perilous genre she’s never read, Roxie is desperate for help. So, when her escape from a potential murderer takes her straight into the path of Grant Hoffman — an anxious English professor with a convenient love of crime novels — she decides a little light kidnapping is a small price to pay for survival. Together, Roxie and Grant team up to navigate a madcap story where the lines between fiction and reality blur and find out if they have what it takes to make it to The End — or maybe even Happily Ever After.