Beach Read

A romance writer who no longer believes in love & 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, & bogged down with writer's block.

Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another & they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, & January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-commontage, & he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book & no one will fall in love. Really.

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Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation, Happy Place, & Book Lovers. She studied creative writing at Hope College, & now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, & the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her at emilyhenrybooks.com & on Instagram @emilyhenrywrites.