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It Starts With Us at Midnight: A Book Launch & Pajama Party at Buxton Books!


  • Buxton Books 160 King Street Charleston, SC, 29401 United States (map)

Be one of the first to get your hands on Colleen Hoover’s much anticipated sequel, It Starts Us, at our very special midnight release and pajama party! Get tickets here!

Call your bookclub friends, take an afternoon nap, put on your cutest pajama set, and then join us in the bookstore for a MIDNIGHT book launch party celebrating the release of Colleen Hoover's It Starts With Us - the much anticipated sequel to It Ends With Us!

Like most books, It Starts With Us releases on a Tuesday - October 18. But on Monday, October 17, Buxton Books is excited to host an after-hours pajama release party in the bookstore so that - as the clock strikes 12 am and the calendar page flips - you can be the first to get your hands on a copy!

While we wait for the magic midnight hour, we will play games (with fun prizes!), listen to a special playlist curated by Colleen Hoover specifically for the It Starts With Us book release, take pictures in the Colleen Hoover photo booth, and eat cake!

Then we'll make our way to our seats to countdown the final seconds until we can give you your SIGNED books!

We'll end the night with a bubbly toast to Colleen, book friends, and new reading material before sending you on your way. Buxton Books will not be held liable for any work/school missed the following day should you decide to stay up and read the whole book in one night - though we do support you on your endeavor!

Included in each ticket are exclusive, limited edition items including:

  • One SIGNED copy of It Starts With Us!

  • First access to signed copies of Colleen's backlist titles (which we can never keep on the shelf, even when they aren't signed) and extra signed copies of It Starts With Us - great for gifting!

  • Cake and refreshments

  • A spot in the bookstore after hours for the games and festivities leading up to the novel's release

  • Limited edition It Starts With Us swag items - sent to us by Colleen Hoover & team!

This event has very limited attendance so get your tickets now to guarantee your spot, and encourage your friends/loved ones/bookclub members to do the same! If you can't make it to the event or spots sell-out before you can get your tickets, not to worry. Order a signed copy of the book here!

About Colleen Hoover:

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty two novels and novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories, as well as psychological thriller. 

Colleen Hoover is published by Montlake Romance, Grand Central Publishing and Atria Books. Colleen also has several indie titles, including Heart Bones.

In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.

Her novel CONFESS has been filmed as a series by Awestruck and is available on Prime Video via Amazon and iTunes. Katie Leclerc and Ryan Cooper star in the series.

Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. To date, The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.

About It Starts With Us:

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date.

But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life—and Atlas Corrigan is the one man he will hate being in his ex-wife and daughter’s life.

Switching between the perspectives of Lily and Atlas, It Starts with Us picks up right where the epilogue for the “gripping, pulse-pounding” (Sarah Pekkanen, author of Perfect Neighbors) bestselling phenomenon It Ends with Us left off. Revealing more about Atlas’s past and following Lily as she embraces a second chance at true love while navigating a jealous ex-husband, it proves that “no one delivers an emotional read like Colleen Hoover” (Anna Todd, New York Times bestselling author).

Get tickets here!