'Friday Night Lights' & the Perfect Denim Dress: Chatting With Author Lyla Sage
Her Rebel Blue Ranch series comes to a close with 'Wild and Wrangled.'
Lyla Sage’s Rebel Blue Ranch series is the kind of romance I love to recommend to people: the books are fun, the romances swoony, and the vibes sexy (a very important qualification to me, personally), but the characters also feel real and their lives are fully sketched out to the point that I think of them as people I know irl. Teddy Andersen, the heroine of Lost and Lassoed, became my best friend; at the end of Swift and Saddled, I found myself wishing Baby Blue was a place I could actually go on a vacation. And I fall a little in love with every single MMC (that’s male main character, for the uninitiated) that Lyla writes, as different as they all are: my sweet cowboys with hearts as big as that Wyoming sky.
I first stumbled on Done and Dusted when buzz for it was bouncing around BookTok in the summer of 2023. The word of mouth was strong enough that I bought the e-book on Amazon and I raced through that bad boy. (I checked my Goodreads: I started reading June 17 and was finished the next day.) It turns out that I found it right after Lyla had self-published her debut; by the next month, she and the Rebel Blue Ranch series had been snapped up by The Dial Press (home to another of my all-time favorite romance novels, Kate Goldbeck’s You, Again – so clearly they know what they’re doing over there).
Now, the Rebel Blue Ranch series is a bonafide New York Times bestseller and a certified banger, but it’s all coming to an end with Wild and Wrangled, out today. When I finished Dusty and Cam’s story, I was genuinely emosh – not just because of their love story, but because I felt like I was saying goodbye to my friends. Luckily, I can visit them any time I want by re-reading Lyla’s books.
Also fortunate: I’ve gotten to know Lyla and become friends with her, which means I can text her like, hey girl can I get on Zoom with you and yap about romance novels and she says, hell yea send the link. (Did you guess that we are both Leos?) So she very kindly let me ask all my questions about moving from self-pub to trad-pub (traditionally published, if ya nasty), how her writing process has changed since going Big Time, a teeny sneak preview about her upcoming Sweetwater Peak series, and, because this is me we’re talking about, how she plans her outfits for press tours.
It was a good time for me and I think it’s gonna be a good time for you, too!
I am so excited to yap. Where did the idea for the Rebel Blue series come from, and why did you decide to self pub?
I always talk about my semi-annual rewatch of Friday Night Lights as the epicenter for the Rebel Blue Ranch series. I watch that show at least once a year all the way through, and I love Tim Riggins – although the older I get, the hotter Coach Taylor gets, which I think is important. But I was watching it in December of 2022, and I was like, what would happen if this kid that we all love so much that has a heart of gold grew up and went to therapy, and maybe potentially got a savings account, and that is where Luke Brooks was born. This entire series was literally based upon the character idea for Luke Brooks – like that man's back must hurt because he's been carrying so much weight – and I started thinking about what I would want a love story to look like for him. Very quickly, Emmy came into the picture, and then her brothers and her dad and her best friend.
The first thing I wrote for Rebel Blue was the scene in Done and Dusted where Luke and Emmy go to the waterfall. It's the exact same scene that you would read and Done and Dusted today, barely changed. It just came to me so clearly, those two and what their dynamic was like, and I wrote that so quickly – in an hour and a half. I was obsessive about it: I locked in, turned on the Spirit soundtrack, and I went for it. I was really proud of it, so I kept writing bits and pieces. When I wrote the first chapter where they see each other at the bar, and that ‘sugar’ [Luke’s nickname for Emmy] slipped, I was like, Oh, this is fun. I think this is going to be good. I think this is going to be worth my while.
I had been querying a novel before that – not a good one. And it didn't get a ton of rejection, just a ton of non responses. But I did get a rejection very, very close to when I started writing Done and Dusted, and so I was like, Fine, I'll do it myself. I have access to Google, I have a dream, I have some tenacity, so I'm going to put it out there. I did, and it was mostly out of spite.
I can't believe that you started writing this in December 2022.
Yeah, me neither.
Because you have four books now.
I know – five, if you want to count the one that's done. [Lyla’s next novel is Soul Searching, out 9/30/2025! PREORDER NOW!]
That's an insane amount of writing to do in such a short amount of time.
Yeah, I don't know who decided that was a good call, but they were stupid.
It was me. I decided that.
How long was it from writing to self-pub?
Pub day was June 6, 2023, so about a six month timeline. I wrote Done and Dusted fast – and I'm always hesitant to say that, because I know somebody out there is going to be like, “I can tell.” Shut up!!! But I wrote it quick; I want to say I was done with it by Valentine's Day. I was in a fugue state at night with my laptop and my comforter over my head. I was really not having a good time in life in general at that point, and I’ve said Rebel Blue Ranch is a place that I go to be safe and loved and okay. Done and Dusted was truly just for me, and that made the writing process really special.
I've never had that experience again, where it all flowed so easily, and it sucks that I can't capture that, but I am so proud of Done and Dusted because I was only doing it for me. I knew I wanted to self pub, but I had written half of it before I was like, Yeah, I think I can do that.
How did you build such a big fan base? I feel like it went viral pretty quickly.
I started my author Instagram in February. Right when I finished the first draft of Done and Dusted, I was like, let's get these good vibes going. I had created some branding; I worked as a graphic designer, so I was really focused on the aesthetics of the series, and I think that helps on such a visual platform like Instagram. I also started making stupid videos on TikTok. They were not good. I was really obsessed with that Hazel Eyes filter that made me look orange, and I wish that I didn't do that, but you win some, you lose some!
I think if you can approach the reader population with a style, a set of tropes and clever marketing, you are going to have an audience, and I knew that I had one there. It wasn't until the cover got finished that people started paying closer attention. But from the very beginning, I didn't really care how many followers I had, I wanted to be engaged with them. I tried to approach everything with Done and Dusted and with me as an author with an air of authenticity, because that's what I connect with on a personal level, and I've never known how to be anything but myself, and I think it worked.
When I hit publish on June 6, I think I had somewhere around 700 Instagram followers, and it was small but mighty – those readers ran with it. They read it and they loved it, and they told their friends. I felt like they were my friends at that point in time; they were cheering for me so wonderfully. It felt like such a strong community, even though it was small, and I still get that feeling from my readers and my platforms. It's something that’s really special to me, because not only do they like my books, but I feel like they're proud of me, and it's truly my biggest dream come true to make them proud.
How did you find your cover artist? Because I do feel like your covers are so unique and they stand out on shelves – you know that I love your covers.
My issue is I tend to know exactly what I want; once I have an idea for something, I always have a very clear vision, and I had a very clear vision for this. Because so much of Meadowlark and Rebel Blue is wrapped up in the way that I grew up, I wanted something that looked like the rodeo posters from my hometown; they had the posters on display at my elementary school library, and I remember them being so striking. I also wanted it to be very identifiably romance. I love a classic clinch cover, I love historicals, so I wanted these two to be embracing, making out – I wanted somebody to look at it and know exactly what they were getting themselves into. I remember one time somebody commented on my videos, “This looks like a kid's book,” and I was like, They're frenching. I don't know what to tell you.
I found some artists through my own personal network that created great covers, but it just wasn't what I was looking for, so I decided to branch out a little bit, and I found Austin. She generally does comic illustrations and illustrations of badass looking women, and so I sent her a DM. I was like, Hey Sister, I wrote a book, and I need a cover and I think that your art would translate really well. She’d never done a Western aesthetic before, and she was like, ‘That sounds great, but I've never done a book cover before.’ And I was like, Well, I've never written a book before, so saddle up and let's roll!
I sent her an eight page document – which is embarrassing – with inspo and vibes and paragraphs from the book, just really going for it. I also laid out for her, This is going to be four books, and this one is daytime, the next one is sunset, the next one is night, and then we're going to end with dawn. I wanted her to have a really clear picture of what I was trying to do. I am lucky to have my background in art and design, because it's easier for me to communicate what I like and what I don't like and what I would potentially like to see, and she was so receptive to it. And she got it. I mean, we took off a tree. I have made Austin remove a tree on every single cover. Someday I will let her have a tree. It just hasn't worked yet.
It’s funny thinking back to Done and Dusted; neither of us knew what we were doing, we hadn't worked together before, but we pieced our way through it. We were both so excited by that final design. I was in absolute awe of it, and our relationship has gotten better and better every time we've done a cover. We know how each other works now, and it's a partnership between the two of us that I'm so grateful for. I'm really lucky that I found somebody who was able to help me execute this vision and to create something exactly how I wanted. More than that, I feel really lucky to have my stories wrapped in her art, because it is very identifiable. There are people out there who pick this bad boy up just because of what it looks like.
Now that I'm looking at them on my shelf, the daylight, sunset, nighttime, sunrise – I'm picking up on that.
And that is the moment of reconciliation between the couple. The time of day plays a role in every story, not just that moment.
I am so mind blown by this.
In Done and Dusted, when Luke Brooks is doing his rugged Mr. Darcy thing [it’s daylight]; Wes and Ada, when she's learning to drive a stick shift, she's talking about the sun and how it's low in the sky; Gus and Teddy soften around each other at nighttime; for Cam and Dusty, there are lots of mornings for them, and I wanted to focus on their new beginning, and also my new beginning after the ending of a series.
You’ve been playing 3D chess with this. Okay, so you started with Luke – how did everybody else show up? Did you always know that you wanted to write an interconnected series?
I always knew I wanted to do something interconnected; there's always a side character that you fall in love with, that you wish there was something for, so I wanted to give everybody their shot. And I just loved this family. Luke came to me first, and then it was Emmy, and then Amos. Originally, I was like, She can have three older brothers. And then I was like, That's super excessive, dos. Teddy came quickly after that, and I had this wall of sticky notes that was super, super insane. They just all came to me so clearly. It was like a Zeus-Athena situation. Then I spent a lot of time after they appeared in my head getting to know them, because I write character driven novels, so I like to know them the best.
Who's your favorite?
I think probably Dusty, or Ada.
I love Ada. I feel like Ada doesn't get enough love and credit in this world.
I agree with you deeply. Also, I think the person that I was when I wrote Done and Dusted is very similar to who Ada is, so I identify a lot with Ada; I wrote Ada for the girl that I was five years ago.
And I love Amos, but that's easy money.
If you don't like Amos, it's because you're a bad person. How did you make the decision to move from self-pub to trad-pub?
When I think about this period, it's insane. I had my friend do my tarot cards right before Done and Dusted came out, and it was the Tower. I was like, stop. But I will take a rebirth, and that's exactly what I have. I had also just been laid off right after Done and Dusted came out, so a lot of things were happening for me in this transition period. This all happened within a span of 21 days, from my self-pub date to me getting the offer from The Dial Press and Penguin Random House.
Done and Dusted was doing its thing on the Amazon charts, thanks to a lot of wonderful people out there who identified with the story, enjoyed it, and made the active decision to share it with their friends, which I so appreciate. My editor, Emma Caruso at The Dial Press, was actually the first person to reach out to me. She had read Done and Dusted and really enjoyed it. I will never forget what it felt like when I got an email that ended with @PenguinRandomHouse.com. I screenshotted it and sent it to everybody like, Look at this. I didn't have an agent. I took a meeting with Emma, and we talked for two hours, and at the end of it, we really connected. I have a great relationship with my editor, and that two hour phone call was the foundation of it, but I ended the phone call with, I'm not interested in selling the rights to Rebel Blue Ranch, but I would be open to talking in the future. And she was like, ‘Are you sure?’
Then the next day, my agent emailed me. I had gotten offers from a couple of agents, and nothing had felt right, but my now agent emailed me and was like, ‘I read the first 20 pages of this and it fucking rocks, so can you take a phone call today, because I'm getting mouth surgery tomorrow.’ And I was like, Yeah, for sure, I totally can – I don't have a job, so I am super free right now. I connected with her, and at the time, I just wanted audiobooks for these because I love audiobooks. And she was like, ‘Easy. Have you had any publisher interest?’ I told her about Emma and Dial Press, and she was like, ‘Good to know.’ But I said the same thing to Jess: I am not interested in selling the rights to Rebel Blue. This series is deeply meaningful to me, it's doing more than I ever thought it was going to, but I want it to be mine. And Jess was super down for that.
Once I signed with Jess, something that became publicized through Publishers Marketplace, Emma made her way back to Jessica asking, ‘What do I have to do here?’ Then Jess called me while I was in a Target – looking at swimsuits, so I was already emotional, because that's tough – and she was like, ‘I've got an offer from The Dial Press that I think you'd be stupid not to take, and we can talk all the way through it, but this is going to be a conversation.’ They came ready to play, and Emma, who is so passionate about my stories, also immediately clocked that I'm a Leo, because she sent a ten page letter complimenting me the whole time, which was genius. We went through a lot of back and forth: you get to keep your covers, nothing's going to change. But one of the key things that Emma and I talked about on our call was my hope that Done and Dusted will be the worst thing I've ever written. That really struck a chord with her and that's something that Jess brought up over and over again in this phone call.
I was walking around this Target for two and a half hours; the workers were probably like, ‘What is this woman doing?’ I did the whole thing in the Target. I did not go out to my car. Once Jess told me the scope of their offer, I was in the book section, and Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano was right in front of me, which is a Dial Press title, so I thought, Maybe I could be in the Target. It felt serendipitous. So I said yea, and then I did go to my car. I called my mom and I started sobbing; I think she thought that something really wrong had happened to me, because I was wailing.
It happened so fast. I accepted the offer on July 2, so it was a whirlwind. My entire life changed in the span of 21 days, and I can honestly say that signing with The Dial Press is the best decision I've ever made for myself. Everything about that part of the story is serendipitous. But this is not how it's supposed to work! This is not how anything works.
Between the two of them, I feel like I really hit the jackpot. Emma handles me and my stories with such care – maybe how some people might handle a bomb. Or something very precious! I choose to think that it's something very precious. She pushes me to write better stories every time. And Jess, my agent, is fiercely protective.
And now you're in the Target.
And now I'm in the Target. That was really special, full circle.
How much of the other stuff had you written before going trad-pub?
I was about halfway through Swift and Saddled. I had already paid for an editor, so Swift and Saddled didn't go through a developmental edit with Dial Press. It went through maybe a minor one, and this is how I knew that I was in love with my editor: she was like, ‘I read it. I loved it. But there's this one part that I was literally tossing and turning about all night, and I have to bring it up.’ And it was such a good point! So I made some changes, but it didn't go through a full developmental edit.
My first from start to finish with The Dial Press was Lost and Lassoed.
What has been the biggest change?
Bro, literally everything. Nothing is the same. I'm not the same. I don't think my books are the same. It's gotten harder and I've gotten slower, but my books have also gotten better, so I think it's a natural progression of growth. That's what they don't tell you about taking something that you love to do, and taking something that has been your soul balm for your entire life, and turning it into a career: sometimes, some of the joy seeps out of it, and it's not something that you can prevent. That’s a tough adjustment every time. Now, I sit down to write a book, and I know that it's going to be read by others, and that changes your relationship with writing. It's not for better or worse, it's not something that makes it bad, it's just the reality. So I do look back at that very condensed period where I was compulsively writing Done and Dusted with so much joy, and I am so proud of that girl for doing the damn thing.
But I am consistently still chasing the feeling that I had when I wrote Done and Dusted, when I was able to write something just for me, which is why I tend to hold things pretty close to my chest when I'm writing. Nobody really knows what's what I'm working on, except for my editor and my agent. I only tell them because I have to. That's my way of trying to maintain some of the pure, unadulterated happiness that I felt while writing Done and Dusted.
I told you this, but I was so sad when Wild and Wrangled ended, because I felt like they were all my friends. You talked about this a bit in your newsletter, but how are you feeling about wrapping this up?
I feel good, brother! I feel amazing. I get this question all the time: Are you sad? No, brother, I got nothing to be sad about.
My main thing with Rebel Blue Ranch and ending it here – I'm sure I could think of something, I'm sure I could tack more onto this series if I wanted to, but I don't want to. Rebel Blue started as my place, and it's been a joy to share it with others. But much like a hometown, when you're surrounded by these people and you've been stuck there for a while, I think it's natural to feel like, I gotta get out of here, I need to breathe. There's a lot more people at Rebel Blue Ranch than there were when I started, and I'm so happy, but I’ve never left. I haven't gone on and read other books and explored other places. I've been in Rebel Blue’s property line since 2022.
I found so much comfort and safety in Rebel Blue, and that is something that I will always cling to. But in order for me to love this place the way that I love it – and I want to love it the way that I love it forever, I never want it to be a place that I have to go to or a place that I have to be – I have to leave, and the comfort and safety that I found there, it's still there. I didn't realize how much I also needed freedom, and I've been able to find that in other places – in Sweetwater, Peak, Wyoming, for example.
I feel nostalgic and I feel proud of what I've done, but there's no sadness. Here, I did what I wanted to do, and I did it the best that I could. The girl who started writing Done and Dusted and had this very clear vision, I don't think she would be happy with me if I fucked with it in any way. And I owe that to her.
Sweetwater Peak is a ways off, but you've started teasing it, so tell me how that's different from where you've been the last three years.
It's so different, and I love it so much. Sweetwater Peak is the only place that could have pulled me from Meadowlark without kicking and screaming. I ran arms out, wind whipping into my hair, into the arms of Sweetwater Peak, and I've loved every second of it. Rebel Blue is a love letter to the places and the people that built me; with Sweetwater Peak, I think, finally, the truest version of myself has made it onto the page – maybe the version of myself that didn't have the chops to write this story in December 2022 – and it's been really, really, really special to explore a new place, to explore new feelings.
Soul Searching is kind of my dream novel. It combines all these things that I love: Western towns, rural communities, ghosts, horror, paranormal elements, family ties. It has all these things that you would expect from a Lyla Sage novel, but wrapped in a package that feels more realistic and more authentic to me. There's a line somewhere in Soul Searching where it's like, ‘This place is built on cigarette butts and chewed up gum,’ which is what I'm built upon as well, and what the places that I grew up in are built upon. I love Sweetwater Peak. I love it so much.
I'm excited for people to get to go there.
You've already been there. That's something that you're not admitting right now.
I'm playing coy about it, playing like I'm cool. Because I told you, I finished it, loved it immediately, obsessed, and also I was that person who was like, ‘And I need the next one right now.’
We're getting there! That's what I'm writing right now, the second one, which does have a title – and the title is actually teased in Soul Searching, which is something I’ve never done before. I don't know if anyone's going to get it, but knowing that it's there, that feels good.
We’ve talked about this, but you are online and you are engaged as an author. How do you balance that with also being able to shut out that idea of: someone is going to read this, and maybe they'll like it, maybe they won't?
Whether or not somebody likes my books does not negate the fact that I get to be proud of them, and that helps. With any luck, Done and Dusted is the worst book that I've ever written, and if given the opportunity to change it, I wouldn't. It's exactly what I wanted it to be. But I feel like I've gotten better every single time; I feel better about these books every time. I started thinking about what is it about these books that I'm proud of; with Wes and Ada, it was telling a story that felt extremely different from Done and Dusted, stretching myself a little bit. Lost and Lassoed, when I wrote it, I was like, this is the best thing I've ever written at the line level – even though I didn't have a good time writing that one, because there were a lot of expectations for that one, and they were really, really heavy. It was Lost and Lassoed where I first started thinking about what other people's expectations meant for me. With Wild and Wrangled, it's the most structurally sound.
These aspects of each one have gotten better, so even if people don't like it, there are a million things for me to be proud of about this book. Just because somebody doesn't like it doesn't mean that it's not well written. It doesn't mean that it's not better than what I produced before. It just means that they didn't connect to the story, and that's okay, or just wasn't for them – that's totally fine. I've started to think of the way I feel about my books as the most important thing, because I'm the one that has to stand next to the book and be proud of it. You can't manage reader expectations, and if you try, all you're going to do is hurt yourself, your books, your writing, and your readers, too.
I know that I'm writing these books for a lot of people out there who love my books. That's such a joy, that's such a dream come true, but I have to be proud of it first. I have to meet my own expectations. And if I meet my own expectations and I fall short on the reader's expectation, that has to be okay.
Tell me what the experience is like of going on a book tour for you.
Book tours are so fun for me. I never leave my house, so I exit the premises of my home and I'm like, Wooo, let's rage! I'm not a naturally extroverted person, but a book tour is so much fun because writing is such an isolating experience that often I forget that there are people out there that are excited about this. And I have writers who are great friends of mine, but the only time I ever see them in person is when one of us is on a book tour, and we're able to invite the other. A book tour is such a tangible show of the community that exists around my books, and it feels amazing.
There's nothing more rewarding than walking into a room of people who care about you and care about your stories. I'll never forget the Lost and Lassoed tour: The first stop was in Salt Lake City, where I live, and there were over 600 people. There's this video of me walking onto the stage so bubbly, so excited; I see everybody, and I just stop and my mouth drops open, and I immediately start crying, because I know that people are out there and love my books, but when you see them all in one place and they're having a good time and excited to see you, it's really special and rewarding. And I think my events sometimes give girl bar bathroom energy – which, I shine in the women's bar bathroom.
I also depend on my clothing to be a sort of armor, to get me ready to suit up and be Lyla Sage for two weeks and give my readers the best version of myself, because they deserve that for the three hours that they hang out with me on whatever day.
I did want to talk about your wardrobe. This is my last question, because I'm taking up so much of your day.
Can you take up more of my day?
I absolutely could, is the thing. But I love your tour outfits. That's one of my favorite parts of you being on tour, is getting to see your tour outfits, and I want to know how you put them together.
I've always loved clothes. My life changed in the sixth grade when I watched my first season of Project Runway and became very obsessed with silhouettes and learning about bias cuts. When I'm thinking about what I want to wear to a book tour, my first impulse is that I want it to be something that I feel confident and I feel comfortable in, because, again, it's like armor. It's not that I need to be protected, but you feel better when you're in front of 600 people, and you can be confident in what you're wearing.
I generally theme them to make things easier, or I build them around something. So for Lost and Lassoed, I built them around my favorite pair of cowboy boots that I owned at the time, which was a black snakeskin pair, and everything that I traveled with had to go with those boots. It’s such a fun challenge and puzzle for my brain to put these outfits together. I'll shop my closet first, picking out pieces that I like, and if I need to, I'll fill in the gaps with something new or with a Poshmark alert. Like: I had a silver belt, I had the black boots, and I knew I wanted a black denim dress, and my favorite denim dress that I've ever had is the Kendi dress from Reformation. They introduced the silhouette three years ago, and I think it's perfect. And I was like, We're gonna set a Google alert for when a black Kendi dress goes up on Poshmark or Depop or whatever.
I try not to build entirely new outfits every time, but with Wild and Wrangled, I'm really excited because I'm building it around a pair of cowboy boots. I bought a new pair of Tecovas boots that I've literally been coveting since 2021, handmade in Texas. They are a dark navy blue, and I tend to lean a little bit more like Western-alt than Western classic, so finding pieces for this one in my wardrobe has actually been slightly more challenging. I do wear a lot of brown, so that works, but picked up a couple of pieces that I'm really, really excited about for this one. I allowed myself four brand new pieces, and then three or four thrift or second hand pieces. I only buy things that I can see myself wearing forever, multiple times. I love eBay auctions. There's so many good vintage Western brands that are owned by an older population, and so they sell a lot of them on eBay.
I never have to buy the expensive stuff, like jackets, because I fucking love jackets, and I've been collecting jackets for a really long time. I'm a jacket slut. That's actually a quote from Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance, by the way – this is his fault. I became a jacket slut when I heard him say that when I was in the eighth grade.
I have a whole spreadsheet, and the Wild and Wrangled fits are finalized. I have to figure out if I am skilled enough to dye a top, which I've been putting off; I bought a more expensive pair of jeans and then I thrifted this top, but the denim is just slightly off – I'm normally so good at matching denim, and I didn't do it. So my options are either wash the jeans a couple of times, or I dye the top. And I would rather play with the $8 thrifted top, because if all else goes I can just wear a white a white tank top and we're good.
It's easy to have an anchor item, especially because I can only take one pair of cowboy boots with me – because I also only travel with a carry-on.
That’s so impressive to me, because you're gone for two weeks.
Two things I don't have time for is checking my bag and waiting for my bag at baggage claim. I'd rather take a nap.
But I love clothes, and it's been so fun to bring that part of me, because there are some parts of me that I protect really fiercely that don't make it into my career in any way shape or form – like my horses or like my family. But it's fun to bring some parts of myself there, and clothes are a big part of that.
I'm excited to see, because I'm coming to both your New York dates.
Do you remember those jeans I sent you with the embroidered back pocket? I'm gonna wear those to the event with BK Borison, because I know I can trust her to take a picture of my butt.
That's really important to know: who you can trust to take a picture of your butt.
I trust Becca to really get in there, to really get in it.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.
Love this so much! Lyla is so fun and authentic and every time I see her on a tour I laugh and smile so damn much. I recommend her stuff to all my girlfriends and love it all deeply!
love this!!! lyla is one of my all time favorite authors and an almost always instant rec for any romance reader around me 🙂↕️ this was lovely and i am even more excited for sweetwater peak 💕💕