Twenty-seven-year-old screenwriter Elle has the chance of a lifetime to write a big-budget movie set in New York City. The only problem? She\u2019s had writer\u2019s block for months, and her screenplay is due at the end of the summer.<\/p>\n
In a desperate attempt at inspiration, Elle ends up back in the city she swore she would never return to, in an apartment she could never afford (floor-to-ceiling windows, skyline views, and a new coffee shop to haunt included). It\u2019s the perfect place to write her screenplay\u2026until she realizes her new neighbor is tech \u201cBillionaire Bachelor\u201d Parker Warren, her stairwell hookup from two years ago. It\u2019s been a lovers-to-enemies situation ever since.<\/p>\n
When seeing him again turns into a full night of hate-fueled writing, Elle realizes her enemy\/twisted muse might just be the key to finishing her screenplay… if she can stand being around her polar opposite. She writes anonymously, and he\u2019s on the cover of every business magazine. He frequents fancy red carpeted events, and she doesn\u2019t like leaving her emotional support five block radius.<\/p>\n
One summer. One wall apart. He needs to fake a buzzy relationship during his company\u2019s precarious acquisition. She needs to write a movie around a list of NYC locations. Both need a break from their unrelenting schedules, and a chance to rediscover the skyscraper glimmering, pizza crusted, sunlit charms of the city.<\/p>\n
Summers always end, and so will this agreement. It\u2019s all pretend. Promise.<\/p>\n
Until it isn\u2019t.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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