Made in Manhattan

Standalone Romantic Fiction

  • Steamy, with an sex scene. Readers 18+

  • An Amazon Best Book of the Month

  • Featured in NY Post, PopSugar, and Brit & Co.

A pampered and privileged Manhattan socialite must teach an unpolished and denim-loving nobody from the Louisiana Bayou how to fit in with the upper crust of New York City.

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“Layne brings a light touch to this delightful, gender-swapped My Fair Lady tale in which New York City itself is a nuanced character..”

—Publishers Weekly

 More Info

  • • Genre: Contemporary Romance

    • Vibe: Very upscale NYC

    •  Heat Level: This book has an explicit sex scene that is rated R, though there is just the one, so it’s a bit slow-burn and not as overtly sexy as some of my others.

    Featured Couple: Violet & Cain

    • POV: Third Person, Heroine Only

    • Tropes: Enemies-to-Lovers, Makeover

    • Reading Order: This is a standalone, not connected to any of my other books.

  • • Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Gallery Books)

    • Original Publication Date: January 18, 2022

  • Violet Townsend has always been a people pleaser. Raised in the privileged world of Upper East Side Manhattan, she always says the right things, wears the right clothes, and never rocks the boat. Violet would do *anything* for the people closest to her, especially her beloved grandmother. So when she asks Violet to teach the newly-discovered grandson of her friend how to fit in with New York City’s elite, Violet immediately agrees. Her goal? To get Cain Stone ready to take his place as heir to his family company…but to say he’s not exactly an eager student is an understatement.

    Born and raised in rural Louisiana and now making his own way in New Orleans, Cain Stone is only playing along for the paycheck at the end. He has no use for the grandmother he didn’t know existed and no patience for the uppity Violet’s attempts to turn him into a suit-wearing, museum-attending gentleman. But somewhere amidst antagonistic dinner parties and tortured tux fittings, Cain and Violet come to a begrudging understanding—and the uptight Violet realizes she’s not the only one doing the teaching. As she and Cain begin to find mutual respect for one another (and maybe even something more), Violet learns that blindly following society’s rules doesn’t lead to happiness…and that sometimes the best things in life come from the most unexpected places.