A #1 New York Times Bestselling Author
One of the New York Times Book Review's Summer Romance Reads
One of Entertainment Weekly's Hottest Summer Reads of 2020
One of Oprah Magazine's Best Beach Reads of Summer 2020
One of Betches' 20 Books to Read in 2020
One of SheReads' Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020
One of Goodreads' Big Books of Spring
One of Popsugar's 25 Exciting New Books Coming Out in May
One of Bustle's Most Anticipated May Titles
One of Shondaland's Five Books to Read in May
One of TheSkimm's 11 Buzzy Books for Your Imaginary Beach Bag
One of Good Morning America's 25 Novels You'll Want to Read this Summer
One of the New York Post's Required Reading
One of Good Housekeeping's 25 Best Beach Reads
One of Huffington Post's Best Books to Read during Quarantine
One of CNN's Perfect Summer Reads
One of LitHub's Ultimate Summer 2020 Reading List
One of BookRiot's 6 Captivating New Books
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. The only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block. Until, one evening, they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.