“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 · 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.