Cocktails & Convos with Chloe Angyal

        Date: Friday, August 4                       Time: 7 PM                               Location: Dog-Eared Books

Dance your way to a great night with author Chloe Angyal, author of Pas de Don’t, in which two down-on-their-luck dancers discover their sizzling — and forbidden — chemistry while touring Sydney.  For some extra flair, author Rachel Mans McKenny will join Chloe in this conversation. Your ticket includes an evening with these authors as well as the book itself!

About the Book: Heather Hays finally has everything she’s worked for—she was promoted principal dancer and is engaged to her forever crush, ballet royalty Jack Andersen. But after Jack is caught cheating, Heather’s near-perfect life comes crashing down. Determined to prove that she rose to the top on her own merits, she accepts a guest position from the only company that will hire her without the Australian National Ballet.

There she meets Marcus Campbell, who has had the most hellish year imaginable. When he shredded his Achilles tendon onstage, he lost every chance of his dad seeing him perform before he passed away. Marcus has spent the months since in physical therapy, worrying he’ll be too old to dance by the time he’s fully recovered. Now he’s supposed to play tour guide for the company’s new arrival.

But as they tour Sydney together, Heather and Marcus discover an immediate mutual attraction—one they absolutely cannot act on. ANB has a strict no-dating policy, and even a hint of romance could cost them both their jobs.

Chloe Angyal is the author of Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet From Itself, which was the result of years of reporting on gender and power in American ballet.
Her writing about ballet has appeared in Jezebel, HuffPost, and the Washington Post, and has been quoted in the New York Times. Originally from Sydney, Australia, she lives in Coralville with her husband, her dog, and several struggling houseplants. Pas de Don’t is her first novel. 
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