Beach Read

Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale. But January and Gus have more in common than you'd think: They're both broke. They've got crippling writer's block. And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends. The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first. The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely... Set over one sizzling summer, Beach Read is a witty love story that will make you laugh a lot, cry a little and fall head over heels. For fans of The Flat Share and If I Never Met You. ******** "A romance writer who has lost faith in love and a literary writer who is stuck in a rut participate in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is a well-known literary fiction author. January Andrews is a bestselling romance author. He kills off his entire cast when she writes a happily ever after. They are diametrically opposed. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that they'll be living in neighboring beach houses for the next three months, broke and stymied by writer's block. Until one hazy evening when one thing leads to another and they strike a deal to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will write the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on rom-com-worthy field trips, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). No one will fall in love after finishing a book. Really." (C.B. Publishers)