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A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fictionтАжliterally, 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 donтАЩt leave you at the altar.┬аShe feels safe in a book. At home. Which might be why sheтАЩs so set on going her annual book club retreat this yearтАФshe needs good friends, cheap wine, and grand romantic gesturesтАФno matter what.
But when her car unexpectedly breaks down on the way, she finds herself stranded in a quaint town that feels like itтАЩs right out of a novelтАж
Because it is.
This place canтАЩt be real, and yetтАж sheтАЩs here, in Eloraton, the town of her favorite romance series, where the candy storeтАЩs honey taffy is always sweet, the local barтАЩs burgers are always a little burnt, and rain always comes in the afternoon. It feels like home. ItтАЩs perfectтАФand perfectly frozen, trapped in the late authorтАЩs last unfinished story.
Elsy is sure thatтАЩs why she must be here: to help bring the town to its storybook ending.
Except there is a character in Eloraton that she canтАЩt placeтАФa grumpy┬аbookstore owner with┬аmint-green eyes,┬аan irritatingly┬аsexy┬аmouth 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 townтАЩs happily-ever-after might just be intertwined with her own.