Lived-In Love Series - Catskills Romance Novels by Bart A. Charlow
Lived-In Love Series - Catskills Romance Novels by Bart A. Charlow
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Sequel novel "This Never Should Have Happened" is now live!
The Essential Catskills Saga Continues
The Essential Catskills Saga Continues
Second-chance romance for grown-ups, set in the 1960s Borscht Belt Catskills and on the California coast.
Start with That Catskill Summer, then read This Never Should Have Happened.
The Lived-In Love™ Series
The Lived-In Love™ Series
Love stories for people old enough to know better, and brave enough to try anyway.
Love stories for people old enough to know better, and brave enough to try anyway.
These novels are about what adults actually do when love shows up late, uninvited, or twice. They move between the Catskills resort country of the 1960s, the Borscht Belt world you may know from Dirty Dancing and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and the California coast of today. They're told from a man's point of view, which is a rare one in romance. There are strong women on every page, and the endings have to be earned.
The series follows novelist and widowed psychotherapist Aaron Ben-Ami, the love he lost almost sixty summers ago, and the love he never expected to find.
He wrote the book he lived. Now she wants to rewrite the ending.
He wrote the book he lived. Now she wants to rewrite the ending.
It's 1967, the golden twilight of the Borscht Belt: a million guests, a thousand stories, and love by the week and the weekend. Decades later, Aaron's novel about that summer is becoming a film, and the young actress cast in it carries a secret from that very past.
Best for: readers who loved the Dirty Dancing era, and anyone who has ever had a summer get away from them.
Heat level: BookAnon rated it "jalapeño to habanero."
3 hearts, 2 coasts, only 1 love can survive. Now available.
3 hearts, 2 coasts, only 1 love can survive. Now available.
Aaron returns to the Catskills for the potential of a series base on the successful movie from his book and finds himself falling for two women at once. Monica offers trust, passion and hard-earned companionship. Izzy, the actress playing his lost love, wears her grandmother's face and reopens a love he swore was finished. Hidden family secrets, and a daughter caught in the middle, make sure nothing is simple.
Best for: readers of mature romance and morally complex love stories who want their happy endings to cost something.
Just the FAQs
Just the FAQs
Is this series for you?
Is this series for you?
You want love stories about people over sixty who are still falling in love.
You're a Dirty Dancing or Borscht Belt nostalgia reader.
You prefer second-chance romance with real emotional stakes.
You're curious about romance from a male point of view.
You want "open door" intimacy that is adult and consensual, never graphic.
Want the true story behind the fiction? Meet the real hotels in The Borscht Belt Books - Memoirs
Where should I start?
Where should I start?
Begin with Book 1. Book 2 stands on its own, but it hits hardest after you've met Aaron in 1967.
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