After achieving success on BookTok — her post of a mock trailer for her fantasy novel Lightlark generated more than 20 million views on the social platform at the time — THR exclusively reported in 2022 that Universal will develop a Lightlark adaptation in partnership with Temple Hill. Aster will executive produce.
Also an author of a middle-grade fiction series Emblem Island, Aster was ready to venture into a new genre for her next novel with Summer in the City, available now.
Aster’s contemporary novel follows Elle and Parker as they navigate a modern enemies-to-lovers story filled with self-growth, time jumps and memories in the Big Apple, that Aster says “will make you want to have a summer day in New York City, and will make you hungry for pizza and thirsty for coffee.”
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