Switch

Two-time Lambda Literary Award-winning author Ann McMan introduces readers to Isabelle “Izzy” Lebrun—a sharp-witted, overeducated assistant train conductor whose love life is one long series of missed connections.

What happens when you’re desperate for love and all your best friends are romance novel junkies? You get pushed onto a carousel of first dates so tragic, they’d make a Harlequin editor cry.

Izzy spends her days riding the rails of the Green Mountain Zephyr between Philadelphia and St. Alban’s, Vermont. It’s a job that pays the bills while she grinds away at her Ph.D.—a ticket to a future where she can finally plant roots, adopt a cat, and maybe, just maybe, find someone to share her sleeper car.

But her quest for romance is more train wreck than meet-cute. From partners who ghost mid-dinner to one-night stands that redefine the term “disaster,” Izzy’s journey is a comedic masterclass in everything that can go wrong on the tracks to love.

Will she ever reach her final destination—a life (and love) that’s truly on track? Or is this the end of the line for happily ever after?

Switch will be available in paperback, eBook, and audiobook formats.

Advance Praise for Switch

“Utterly delightful! Ann McMan has done it again, although can you really use this particular turn of phrase since Ann McMan does it every time and never misses? Switch is fun and funny, vulnerable and sweet, geeky and delectable. It makes you giggle and kick your feet at 2 a.m. because you just had to read one more chapter. The parade of tropes is hilarious, the setting cozy, and the trains? What a captivating backdrop! So instead of using that introductory “she has done it again,” syntagm, I’ll just say, “Nobody does it like Ann McMan!”

—Milena McKay, Lambda Literary and GCLS
award-winning sapphic fiction author

Publication Date: July 5, 2025, by Bywater Books

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Switch is also available in the following formats: paperback, eBook, and audiobook