The end of the story is that I don’t have the book and that’s bad

I have concerns.

One of our favorite romance writers of all time–Jennifer Ashley, the author of arguably the most broken hero ever written–has a book out today. When her books come out, we have already marked the calendar and we anticipate it all week. We always buy those kinds of crazily anticipated books from our local Barnes & Noble instead of Amazon because even though Amazon is crazy fast, we want instant gratification on those books. If you recall we call it the church because there’s a Starbucks inside and what could be holier than coffee and books, together, all in one place?

So I went to the B&N today to get my copy of Rules for a Proper Governess and they didn’t have any on the shelves.

Or on the rounder.

Or up front with the new releases.

Sigh. That means I had to find a human and ask them for it.

They didn’t have any. Not a single copy of Jennifer’s book. How is that possible? It’s published by Berkley for Zeus’s sake, not some tiny fly-by-night publisher. The clerk claimed it was still on order.

I am terrified the Barnes & Noble is closing. PLEASE DON’T CLOSE. PLEASE

We can’t take another closure like Borders.