How to Plot a Payback: A hilarious and heartwarming tale of revenge, redemption, and unexpected romance

How to Plot a Payback: A hilarious and heartwarming tale of revenge, redemption, and unexpected romance

Melissa Ferguson

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He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn't enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work with her. Successful screenwriter Finn Masters just landed his dream job writing for Neighbors, one of Hollywood's highest-rated, longest-running sitcoms. The only downside? It will put him back in proximity of the show's universally adored, optimistic, altruistic star, Lavender Rhodes, who has been inadvertently ruining his life since they were school chums in England. But she doesn't even know she destroyed his acting career and wrecked his relationship with the love of his life. He's not about to let this woman yank yet another dream out from under his feet. In fact, he realizes he's been given the ideal opportunity to plot his payback: spinning her character in shocking new directions. What could go wrong? Only everything. As Finn's not-so-brilliant plot backfires one scene after the next, catching him in the blasts, he's forced to think about this impossible, infuriating... and maybe even lovable woman in an entirely new light.


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  • brittanyp
    Feb 12, 2025
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  • readwith_abi
    Mar 31, 2025
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    after reading a lot of little rom-com type books, a lot of them can begin to feel the same but the plot of this one was something different, and definitely leaned more on the ‘com’ part of rom-com. although the enemies to lovers trope was mostly one-sided in this, it still felt so rewarding to see the the fmc and the mmc grow closer over the course of the book. i would have loved an ending where finn didn’t have to go back to writing the genre he had grown tired of, just to say it’s worth it to work with lavender, but overall, it was a fun, light read.

    thank you to netgalley and thomas nelson and zondervan fiction audio for the advanced reader’s copy in exchange for an honest review.

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