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A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Publication Year: 2024
“He studies me with the wary concern of veterinarian examining a dog who just scarfed down a full espresso chocolate cake” 🤣🤣 I had to stop and re-read that, what an analogy lol
One of my biggest problems with hetero/straight romance has always been the MMC, I always find them insufferable and can never get past it (I am a man-hater, I mean that in the most respectful way possible😭 Men are usually my least fav part of a book). I don't feel that way about Miles right now, which is refreshing!! I was planning to just choke down whatever the MMC brought to the book so I could experience Emily Henry, but I am even enjoying his part a bit. Peter on the other hand 😭😭😭😭 Diabolical behavior. The final boss of red flags!!! Petra what are you even doing!!!