Just Stab Me Now by Jill Bearup, 314 pages
From the MARC: "Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline's favourite tropes. But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow. She has a war to stop and two children to get home to and flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being Only One Bed. What's an author to do? Especially when discussions with her editor might reveal that he and Rosamund's Hot Enemy have some suspicious similarities . . "
Just Stab Me Now is a fun story-within-a-story meta read. It's completely aware of its genre and its audience and is quick to delight and surprise. I'm not much of a romance reader but I was drawn in by Lady Rosamund's delicious stubborness and courage. It's a lovely change of pace to have an older heroine who gets stuff done and has her own agency even when her circumstances box her in.
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