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A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fictionโฆliterally, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Year Slip and The Dead Romantics.
Eileen Merriweather loves to get lost in a good happily-ever-after. The fictional kind, anyway. Because at least imaginary men donโt leave you at the altar.ย She feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why sheโs so set on going her annual book club retreat this yearโshe needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gesturesโno matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like itโs right out of a novelโฆ
Because it is.
This place canโt be real, and yetโฆ sheโs here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy storeโs honey taffy is always sweet, the local barโs burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. Itโs perfectโand perfectly frozen, trapped in the late authorโs last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure thatโs why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.
Except there is a character in Eloraton that she canโt placeโa grumpyย bookstore owner withย mint-green eyes,ย an irritatinglyย sexyย mouth and impeccable taste in novels. And he does not want her finishing this book.
Which is a problem because Elsy is beginning to think the townโs happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.