The Mother Road

The Mother Road is one of Meghan Quinn’s contemporary romance novels, with the title referencing the famous nickname for U.S. Route 66, the historic American highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles and that has been the central subject of significant American cultural mythology across the twentieth century. The road trip romance setup that the title suggests has been one of the steadier corners of contemporary romance for many years.

Meghan Quinn writes contemporary romance with the kind of warm humor and quick pacing that her readers return to her for. The road trip framework gives Quinn room to develop the kind of forced proximity and slow building chemistry that the trope reliably produces, with the various stops and adventures along the way providing the structural anchor for the romance.

For readers who enjoy contemporary romance from Lauren Layne, Christina Lauren, Helena Hunting, or Tessa Bailey, Meghan Quinn is squarely in the same neighborhood. The Mother Road is a comfortable entry into her catalogue.