"One of my favorite authors."--Colleen Hoover
An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller
from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily ∙ Today ∙ Parade
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One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
Nora Stephens' life is books--she's read them all--and she is not that
type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and
especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a
heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a
cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the
month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters' trip away--with
visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she's convinced
needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in
meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed
bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding
editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the
fact that they've met many times and it's never been cute.
If Nora knows she's not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he's nobody's
hero, but as they are thrown together again and again--in a series of
coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow--what they discover
might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they've written about
themselves.
