
Whoever finishes and sells their book first, wins. Their contentious front-porch chats lead them to construct a challenge: they’ll each spend the summer writing a novel in the other’s genre, giving one another tutorials in their respective approaches and going on research trips together.

Broke and suffering from writer’s block, January’s moves into the “lakeside cottage brimming with charm and proof your father was an asshole and your life has been a lie.” Her new next-door neighbor is Augustus Everett, the tortured darling of the literary fiction world.

Then her father dies and she inherits his secret lake house in North Bear Shores, Mich., and discovers his long-standing extramarital affair. January Andrews, a 29-year-old romance author, has always believed in happily-ever-after. Henry ( Hello Girls) hits all the right notes with this clever, compassionate contemporary romance.
