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Synopsis
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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Beach Read: content & age rating
Intended for adult readers (18+).
This adult contemporary romance contains explicit sexual content, strong language, and themes of grief following a parent's death. Best suited for mature readers comfortable with open-door romance.
What to know going in
This book has no graphic violence, steamy sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include death of parent and grief.
Who'll love this
Adult readers will love this witty romance between two writers challenging each other to write outside their comfort zones while falling for each other.