Emily Henry
Beach Read: Deluxe Edition

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 and bogged down with writer’s block.

Then one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and 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 (obviously).

Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love.

Really.

“A tender, thoughtful, and very funny book…it’s not only convincing but infectious.”—The New York Times Book Review