One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming….<\/p>\n
Nora Stephens\u2019 life is books\u2014she\u2019s read them all\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n
Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters\u2019 trip away\u2014with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she\u2019s 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\u2019ve met many times and it\u2019s never been cute.<\/p>\n
If Nora knows she\u2019s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he\u2019s nobody\u2019s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again\u2014in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow\u2014what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they\u2019ve written about themselves.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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