Ali Rosen in conversation with Ashley Poston

Mon., Feb 2, 2026, 6 pm, Blue Bicycle Books and the Charleston County Public Library present an evening with bestselling romance authors Ali Rosen and Ashley Poston, celebrating the release of Ali's The Slow Burn.

The conversation will be in the auditorium of the CCPL Main Branch, 68 Calhoun St., downtown Charleston. 

Tickets include a signed copy The Slow Burn, (Montlake, pb., $17).

A limited number of free tickets are also available.

Additional books by both authors will be available for purchase.

About The Slow Burn: 

Between a breakup and a burned-down restaurant, there’s nothing left in New York for Kit Roth except the ashes of her success. Needing distance and distraction, she agrees to work for her best friend’s pasta-making nonna in the Italian countryside. But instead of providing a quiet sabbatical to eat up time while her kitchen is rebuilt, the small town of Manciano keeps pulling Kit into its rituals and rhythms. And before long, it shows her everything she’s been missing. Simpler cooking, community…and Nico Ruspoli, an olive oil producer with his own scorched past. But with Kit determined to leave after three months, and Nico rooted to his grove, their growing chemistry is at odds with what they both want for their future.

Ali Rosen is the bestselling author of four novels, including the Amazon Editors pick Unlikely Story, described in a starred review by Kirkus as “a swoonworthy romance reminiscent of a Nora Ephron movie.”

Rosen is also the Emmy Award– and James Beard Award–nominated host of Potluck with Ali Rosen on NYC Life, and the author of three cookbook.She has been featured everywhere from The Today Show to The New York Times and has written for Bon Appétit, The Washington Post, and New York magazine.

Rosen is originally from Charleston but now lives in New York City with her husband and three kids. She can usually be found wandering the Union Square Greenmarket or curled up in a chair reading a romance novel. www.ali-rosen.com, @Ali_Rosen.

Ashley Poston is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of The Dead Romantics, The Seven Year Slip, and A Novel Love Story. She has also written over half a dozen young adult novels.

After graduating from the University of South Carolina with a BA in English, she pursued a career in the publishing industry where she helped design and implement marketing strategies for novels. Now, she writes full-time from her little grey house, and spoils her three cats. When not writing, she bides her time between South Carolina and New York, and all the bookstores between.