The Hating Game meets Beach Read in Katy Birchall's
enemies-to-lovers romcom The Last Word, about a young journalist who
puts her career (and her heart) on the line when her former work nemesis
is hired in her newsroom.
Harper Jenkins is at the top of her game. A brilliant, determined
journalist with a well-known knack for getting tight-lipped Hollywood
stars to open up to her, Harper loves her job as Celebrity Editor at a
newspaper's glossy weekend magazine and has the best contacts in the
business.
But when her awful boss hires talented reporter Ryan to be the new
Features Editor, Harper is furious. Because the two have met before: a
decade ago, they were interns at the same publication, where they fell
into a whirlwind romance...until Ryan betrayed Harper, and they never
spoke again.
Thrown together in a busy newsroom, their dynamic is a disaster from the
start. They can't agree on anything and bicker constantly--Ryan can't
bear how chaotic and messy Harper is; Harper finds Ryan's condescending
nature infuriating. They clash over who's writing what article, and
fight over who's going to which event.
Yet as they're forced to spend more and more time together, Harper
realizes she may have misjudged Ryan and can't help but feel a spark
growing between them. Long buried feelings start to resurface and, when
they're thrown together on a romantic press trip abroad, their chemistry
comes to a head.
But all is fair in love and magazines, and with the news that layoffs
across the department are imminent, Harper is left to wonder: who will
get the last word?
