ROMANCE

What Happens in Amsterdam

Berkley. May 2025. 384p. ISBN 9780593548554. pap. $19. CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE
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After losing her boyfriend and job, thirtysomething Dani Dorfman decides to leave Los Angeles for a position at an Amsterdam startup that soon folds, giving her only three months to find new employment before her visa runs out. Already falling in love with the city and finding some hard-won independence from her overprotective parents, she’s desperate to stay. When she literally runs into Wouter van Leeuwen, the hot Dutch exchange student her family hosted when she was in high school and who was her first love and heartbreak, he offers an unexpected solution: they get married for a year so Wouter can inherit his family home while giving Dani more time to find a job in Amsterdam. Living together and keeping up their marriage charade soon has them realizing that they might still be in love with each other, but getting over their past heartbreak and admitting their true feelings won’t be easy. As Dani finds her footing in her own life and in a new city, readers also get to vicariously experience the fantastic Dutch setting.
VERDICT Solomon (Business or Pleasure) writes a wonderfully sensitive and sexy expat love story where an American moves to Amsterdam and finds an old love and new confidence.
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