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• From the cover PROLOGUE
  
  When books are your life—­or in my case, your job— ­you get pretty good at guessing where a story is going. The tropes, the archetypes, the common plot twists all start to organize themselves into a catalogue inside your brain, divided by category and genre.
  
  The husband is the killer.
  
  The nerd gets a makeover, and without her glasses, she’s smoking hot.
  
  The guy gets the girl—­or the other girl does.
  
  Someone explains a complicated scientific concept, and someone else says, “Um, in English, please?”
  
  The details may change from book to book, but there’s nothing truly new under the sun.
  
  Take, for example, the small-­town love story.
  
  The kind where a cynical hotshot from New York or Los Angeles gets shipped off to Smalltown, USA—­to, like, run a family-­owned Christmas tree farm out of business to make room for a soulless corporation.
  
  But while said City Person is in town, things don’t go to plan. Because, of course, the Christmas tree farm—­or bakery, or whatever the hero’s been sent to destroy—­is owned and operated by someone ridiculously attractive and suitably available for wooing.
  
  Back in the city, the lead has a romantic partner. Someone ruthless who encourages him to do what he’s set out to do and ruin some lives in exchange for that big promotion. He fields calls from her, during which she interrupts him, barking heartless advice from the seat of her Peloton bike.
  
  You can tell she’s evil because her hair is an unnatural blond, slicked back à la Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, and also, she hates Christmas decorations.
  
  As the hero spends more time with the charming baker/seamstress/tree farm . . . person, things change for him. He learns the true meaning of life!
  
  He returns home, transformed by the love of a good woman. There he asks his ice-­queen girlfriend to take a walk with him. She gapes, says something like, In these Manolos?
  
  It will be fun, he tells her. On the walk, he might ask her to look up at the stars.
  
  She snaps, You know I can’t look up right now! I just got Botox!
  
  And then he realizes: he can’t go back to his old life. He doesn’t want to! He ends his cold, unsatisfying relationship and proposes to his new sweetheart. (Who needs dating?)
  
  At this point, you find yourself screaming at the book, You don’t even know her! What’s her middle name, bitch? From across the room, your sister, Libby, hushes you, throws popcorn at your head without lifting her gaze from her own crinkly-­covered library book.
  
  And that’s why I’m running late to this lunch meeting.
  
  Because that’s my life. The trope that governs my days. The archetype over which my details are superimposed.
  
  I’m the city person. Not the one who meets the hot farmer. The other one.
  
  The uptight, manicured literary agent, reading manuscripts from atop her Peloton while a serene beach scene screen saver drifts, unnoticed, across her computer screen.
  
  I’m the one who gets dumped.
  
  I’ve read this story, and lived it, enough to know it’s happening again right now, as I’m weaving through late-­afternoon foot traffic in Midtown, my phone clutched to my ear.
  
  He hasn’t said it yet, but the hairs on the back of my neck are rising, the pit opening in my stomach as he maneuvers the conversation toward a cartoon-­style drop off a cliff.
  
  Grant was only supposed to be in Texas for two weeks, just long enough to...

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• Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @emilyhenrywrites.

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  February 21, 2022
  A summer trip spurs unexpected self-discovery in bestseller Henry’s latest rom-com (after People We Meet on Vacation), a moving examination of love, belonging, and family. Since childhood, literary agent Nora Stephens has structured her life around taking care of her sister, Libby, four years her junior, so when an exhausted and—Nora fears—increasingly distant Libby suggests a monthlong trip to small-town Sunshine Falls, N.C., Nora eagerly agrees. As she wrestles with Libby’s irritability and strives to make her happy while trying to find her own equilibrium—including making a surprising connection with her professional nemesis, editor Charlie Lastra, a Sunshine Falls native—Nora must turn fresh eyes on old problems. Meanwhile, things heat up between Charlie and Nora, but the demands of their professional lives may keep them apart. Henry expertly captures the complexities of close but unbalanced familial relationships along with the distance between the dreams of youth and the realities of adulthood. As usual, her sharp eye for detail in establishing setting and creating empathetic characters engages the reader, and Nora’s well-shaded emotional struggles complement the steamy enemies-to-lovers plot and lovely scenery. This introspective romance is sure to please. Agent: Taylor Haggerty, Root Literary.

• Julia Whelan's dynamic performance will have listeners savoring every literary reference and word in this romance novel. Nora is unlucky in romantic love, but she loves her work as a book agent, New York City, and her sister, Libby. As Libby persuades Nora to vacation with her in rural North Carolina, her plan is to find Nora a man. But things go awry when Nora runs into Charlie, a book editor who is her enemy in the publishing world. As rapid-fire insults evolve into flirty banter, Nora realizes she judged Charlie too soon. Will regular life resume once vacation ends? Whelan excels at character portrayals. Even secondary characters--a stressed writer and exhausted pregnant Libby--are made vividly real. A.L.C. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
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  Starred review from September 1, 2022
  

  Best-selling author Henry (Beach Read) is back with an exciting new novel that readers will devour. Literary agent Nora Stephens is intense and demanding but adored by the authors she represents. Nora eats, drinks, and breathes books, and expects others to follow suit. When her pregnant sister convinces her to spend the summer in Sunshine Falls, the small-town setting of her favorite romance novel, Nora can't say refuse. What she doesn't know is that cocky Charlie Lastra, a New York editor, will also be in Sunshine Falls. Charlie and Nora find themselves repeatedly thrown together, whether looking for the town's only Wi-Fi signal, ordering drinks to appease the scary bartender, or discussing Bigfoot erotica. The two thought that enemies-to-lovers was just a romance trope, but they soon see this trope playing out in real life. The audio is brilliantly narrated by Julie Whelan, who infuses her signature humor into Henry's characters. Whelan's perfectly timed delivery adds both a comedic and an emotional flair. VERDICT Fans of small-town romances, realistically flawed characters, and witty humor will be enchanted and may rate this as Henry's best novel to date.--Erin Cataldi

  Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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