Beach Read

From the #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Funny Story

As featured in The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Oprah Magazine, Good Morning America, and more.

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and 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.

The only thing they have in common: for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.

Until one hazy 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.

📖 Paperback | 400 pages