Leave It Up to Love

A Short Story

From New York Times bestselling author Kristy Woodson Harvey comes a funny, feel-good tale—a seaside romp about chasing dreams, losing illusions, and writing your own story.

Ready for her big break after publishing her first novel, Lila Everwood has two fresh book ideas and dreams of quitting her barista job. She’s hopeful about her future—until her writing catches her literary idol’s attention in all the wrong ways.

Elizabeth Lancaster, the queen of regency romance, hasn’t written a word in three years. Her publisher’s solution? A ghostwriter. Specifically, her favorite coffee server. It’s either brilliance or madness—and her literary agent son Grady thinks it’s definitely the latter.

As the ideas begin to fly, so do the sparks—between Lila and Grady. And, as Lila’s and Elizabeth’s worlds collide, the two writers must lean on each other, learning something vital in the process: In life, love, and publishing, sometimes you have to write your own happy ending.

©2026 by Kristy Woodson Harvey Author, LLC. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Short and Sweet

Sometimes we need to write our own story and others we have to let love write it for us. This short story begins and ends with love in a perfect little package.

Nice story!

Nice story.
Irritating narration with baby talk. It was very distracting and made it difficult listen but story was too good to stop.

The story line

I enjoyed listening to this story, and how it’s characters drew me into the story line. It was short but quite enjoyable.