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FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.

Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.

They’re polar opposites.

In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (May 19, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1984806734
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1984806734
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.47 x 1.02 x 8.24 inches
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: seriously thorough rom com
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Reviewer: HeathMali
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: One of my favorites
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Reviewer: Inguna
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: well written, but ...
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Reviewer: MONDAY MOOSE
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Delightful and Refreshing Read
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Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: This book is a great book to read in the summer! I read it in 2 days and it got me out of my reading and writing slump! I owe Emily Henry for that! Love her books so much. This is the first one I read from her and I loved it. The romance was so cute.The cover is fun and light hearted, but don't let that fool you! It has lots of emotion and is way deeper than I expected. I love how the main character thinks and processes things, she's a very realistic person.The setting is so cute in a small town and beach houses. Both writers! Sooooo cute. The writing is also very good and I wish I could write like she does.

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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