Literature & Fiction
“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen HooverAn 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 ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Bustle ∙ PopSugar ∙ Katie Couric
Media ∙ Book Bub ∙ SheReads ∙ Medium ∙ The Washington Post ∙ and more!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. Read more

 

Genre Literary Fiction