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  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593438916
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00
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It Had to Be You





Two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they face off in an epic game of lust and murder across Western Europe.

Two contract killers, each with a hit out on the other, must fight their growing attraction as they face off in an epic game of lust and murder across Western Europe.

When Eva and Jonathan hook up on the sleeper train from Florence to Paris, they think they’ll never see each other again. Which is too bad, because neither has ever felt a spark like this for another person. But love isn’t on the agenda in their line of work. 

Six months later, they run into each other in the Hall of Mirrors in Versailles. This encounter is not by chance, because Eva has been hired to kill Jonathan. She’s a contract killer, but what she doesn’t know is that he is too.

Their meeting kicks off a high-stakes adventure across Western Europe. There will be tourism. There will be bodies.  Eva and Jonathan might even fall for each other.

As the two get closer to completing their assignments, it becomes clear that they are also being hunted—by something even more dangerous than love. . . .

  • Published: 1 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780593438916
  • Imprint: Berkley
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Eliza Jane Brazier

Eliza Jane Brazier is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. Eliza entered the horse world at the age of five and has worked as a rider, horse trainer, and riding instructor. She lives with her horse and dogs in California, where she is developing her books for television.

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Praise for It Had to Be You

Praise for It Had to Be You

It Had to Be You is an astonishing read, equally romantic and twisted, deliciously sexy and disturbing! This book answers the question I've been pondering for years: What if John Wick was a rom-com? Eliza Jane Brazier managed to write two characters who are like no one else, in a book that is the new blueprint for Enemies to Lovers. I kicked my feet when they kissed—and kicked them even more when they tried to kill each other! If you’re the kind of reader who enjoys unique romance novels with an edge, a whole lot of unpredictable twists, and the idea of a seasoned assassin traveling across Europe and falling for the person they’re supposed to kill, this is the book for you! A humorously dark, upsettingly sexy, unique love story about the horrors and delights of being seen as who we really are—with lots of swords and plenty of smut!”—Ali Hazelwood, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love, Theoretically

“Just when I thought I couldn’t love Brazier’s writing any more, she releases It Had to Be You! Sizzling chemistry paired with wild plot twists makes this book impossible to put down—and to forget! 25/10 would recommend!”—Lynn Painter, New York Times bestselling author of Happily Never After