Callie Evans isn’t exactly living her best life in Los Angeles. She dropped out of college, has been repeatedly fired, and is now literally watching paint dry at a hardware store for a living. This isn’t the depressing existence she had planned for her early twenties, but here she is.
Although she’s faced a significant trauma, she’s learning that avoiding grief has owned her for far too long. A change of scenery might be what she needs to regroup and move forward.
Callie takes a few months away from her California chaos to handle renovations on her family’s old house in small-town Vermont. This temporary escape could be just the thing to ease the pain that crushed her past and continues to impact her present. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll get a chance to reconnect with a certain boy from her childhood, whom she’s now aching to see again.
When Callie rolls back into her hometown, she finds that her preteen crush, Danny, has turned into a wildly hot twenty-something. What haven’t changed are his humor and kindness. But Danny’s hidden demons might possibly be even more painful than her own.
As Callie spends the summer falling in love with cooking, home repairs, and hosting brunches for her quirky neighbors, she also fights falling in actual love with Danny. After all, she knows from experience that love is never guaranteed to last.
Only the summer will tell.
Although she’s faced a significant trauma, she’s learning that avoiding grief has owned her for far too long. A change of scenery might be what she needs to regroup and move forward.
Callie takes a few months away from her California chaos to handle renovations on her family’s old house in small-town Vermont. This temporary escape could be just the thing to ease the pain that crushed her past and continues to impact her present. And maybe, just maybe, she’ll get a chance to reconnect with a certain boy from her childhood, whom she’s now aching to see again.
When Callie rolls back into her hometown, she finds that her preteen crush, Danny, has turned into a wildly hot twenty-something. What haven’t changed are his humor and kindness. But Danny’s hidden demons might possibly be even more painful than her own.
As Callie spends the summer falling in love with cooking, home repairs, and hosting brunches for her quirky neighbors, she also fights falling in actual love with Danny. After all, she knows from experience that love is never guaranteed to last.
Only the summer will tell.
"The Color of Us is a beautiful return to form by beloved indie phenom Jessica Park. Her brand of genuine, down-to-earth, laugh-out-loud romance is compulsively readable. This book is Park at her most vibrant and heartfelt. It's like coming home again. Jessica is back, and she's going to rip your heart out and return it with a whole new beautiful mess of feelings inside." -Bestselling Author Elliot Wake
“Ohmygod this book was outstanding! It was utter perfection. I didn’t want The Color of Us to end but I couldn’t put it down—the perfect kind of book, in my opinion.
I absolutely loved Callie. I don’t think I’ve ever cared more for a main character than I have her. Her struggles and pain just felt so real. Her growth in this book was executed flawlessly, and I rooted for her with every meal she created and every design she came up with. And Danny? What else can I say but heartbreakingly amazing? All characters were perfectly developed and I fell in love with them and the town of Wake
I thought I knew what my favorite read of this year was, but that was until The Color of Us took its place.”--Kara R. on Amazon
“The Color of Us is a devastatingly beautiful story. A perfect balance of heat, and humor, and beautiful romance that I just could not put down.” -Reader Anjanette Rose
“Jessica Park’s The Color of Us simultaneously gives readers the comfort and nostalgia of an early indie romance, while also bringing a brand new love story guaranteed to put you ‘all up in your feels’ — making it the perfect story for forever fans and new readers alike!” – Bestselling Author Dee Lagasse
“This story is exactly what I needed! No one does a slow burn like Jessica Park! More than that though, she is masterful in creating dynamic characters with real issues while maintaining the magic of romance.
One thing I've always loved in Park's books is that she portrays a more realistic side to events/life and normalizes certain behaviors in men. She makes it ok for men to be human, show emotion, and deal with trauma too. She writes the perfect anti-alpha! The kind of men real people would actually want to fall in love with. Man, have I missed her writing!" --Brianne on GR.
“Jessica Park has done it again! Her words always flow effortlessly across the pages as she unravels a beautifully written story, and The Color of Us is no exception. This book is not just a story of love, but also one of courage and hope.” -Reader Katie Monson
“Ohmygod this book was outstanding! It was utter perfection. I didn’t want The Color of Us to end but I couldn’t put it down—the perfect kind of book, in my opinion.
I absolutely loved Callie. I don’t think I’ve ever cared more for a main character than I have her. Her struggles and pain just felt so real. Her growth in this book was executed flawlessly, and I rooted for her with every meal she created and every design she came up with. And Danny? What else can I say but heartbreakingly amazing? All characters were perfectly developed and I fell in love with them and the town of Wake
I thought I knew what my favorite read of this year was, but that was until The Color of Us took its place.”--Kara R. on Amazon
“The Color of Us is a devastatingly beautiful story. A perfect balance of heat, and humor, and beautiful romance that I just could not put down.” -Reader Anjanette Rose
“Jessica Park’s The Color of Us simultaneously gives readers the comfort and nostalgia of an early indie romance, while also bringing a brand new love story guaranteed to put you ‘all up in your feels’ — making it the perfect story for forever fans and new readers alike!” – Bestselling Author Dee Lagasse
“This story is exactly what I needed! No one does a slow burn like Jessica Park! More than that though, she is masterful in creating dynamic characters with real issues while maintaining the magic of romance.
One thing I've always loved in Park's books is that she portrays a more realistic side to events/life and normalizes certain behaviors in men. She makes it ok for men to be human, show emotion, and deal with trauma too. She writes the perfect anti-alpha! The kind of men real people would actually want to fall in love with. Man, have I missed her writing!" --Brianne on GR.
“Jessica Park has done it again! Her words always flow effortlessly across the pages as she unravels a beautifully written story, and The Color of Us is no exception. This book is not just a story of love, but also one of courage and hope.” -Reader Katie Monson
I’m very happy to share the first audio teasers for The Color of Us! Narrated by Arielle DeLisle and available on Audible!
In this clip, Callie has been working at a small paint store, and this clip shows her return to the store following a rather disastrous in-home consultation with a client…
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I’m in love with this clip from The Color of Us audiobook! I was dying to hear my narrator’s rendition of the reality-based “eekie” story, and, boy, did she ever deliver! (And it cracks me up how she refers to this chapter as being about "the confused geniuses"!) Available now on Audible and iTunes.
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