Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It's our great pleasure to present Kate Hash!
Writes:
I write contemporary romance that features thirty- and forty-something leading ladies falling in love and figuring out new stages in life. My books are classic romantic comedies – expect to fall for not just with the love stories, but the supporting characters, settings, and hilarious hijinks, too! Confession: I’ve got a thing for North Carolina and my first two books are both set there.
About:
I used to bounce around every few years – Washington, D.C., Philly, Louisville, KY, Florence, Italy – but now I’m a homebody based on Chapel Hill, NC. Every year for my birthday I ask for one hour with my husband and kids where we all read by the fire and share a bowl of snacks (my personal heaven). Big fan of lazy weekends watching college sports, weekdays spent writing with the morning light creeping in, and year-round evening walks to appreciate the changing seasons.
What I’m looking for in my ideal reader match:
• Loves a slow burn romance
• Relishes a zingy first chapter that sets the tone
• Cherishes female friendship and reading about it
• Doesn’t mind heavy topics like grief and divorce
• Goes all in on stories about women discovering themselves in midlife
What to expect if we're compatible:
• The unrelenting need to read my books in a single weekend and then think about them for the days and weeks to come
• Grown-ups falling in love and figuring things out
• Suddenly wanting to book a trip to the mountains of NC (my debut) or Durham, NC (my new release)
• Feel good romantic comedies that feel like real life.
Disclaimer: you’re probably going to cry once or twice in my books, because I like to write deep, thoughtful love stories with mature characters. You will, however, also laugh quite a few times and you will almost certainly wish you could grab brunch and mimosas with my leading ladies.
A Novel
Sometimes the family you need is the one you never expected to find.
On the plane to Durham for her next big gig, traveling consultant and soon-to-be divorcée Andi gets into an argument about the impossible expectations of mothers-in-law that will change her life forever. When her seventy-something adversary unexpectedly extends an olive branch invitation to her book club, Andi does something completely out of character: she says yes.
This social circle is delightfully feisty, gossipy, and also hopelessly clueless about how to navigate frayed relationships with their adult children. Andi spends evenings doling out advice to her new coterie of retired friends, helping to repair generational divides.
As the weeks and months go by, Andi has a quiet revelation: life in Durham just fits. The book club members love her, the company loves her, and after a whirlwind romance with a handsome professor, she’s fairly certain her new beau loves her, too. It’s all going great . . . until her past comes walking through the door. Andi must decide what happiness really looks like--and she just might need the wisdom of her new friends to figure it out.
Romance Contemporary | Women's Fiction Southern [ Dutton, On Sale: October 13, 2026, Trade Paperback / e-Book / audiobook, ISBN: 9798217045471 / eISBN: 9798217045488 ]
Kate Hash is a Chapel Hill, NC-based debut novelist who enjoys creating and consuming stories about dynamic women, unexpected relationships, and the complexity that comes with entering midlife. She has lived in Italy, run a business, and even appeared on an episode of House Hunters International (one of her favorite “two truths and a lie” facts). During her four years abroad in the early 2010s, Kate operated a popular travel blog and contributed guides to the much-beloved Design*Sponge. Kate is currently the Assistant Vice Chancellor for IT at the University of North Carolina and is mildly obsessed with college towns and the creative energy they produce.
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