A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.

 

Daphne always loved the way her fiance 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 fiancee's ex…right?

One of my favourite authors. - Colleen Hoover

Emily knows how to craft a love story like the all-time greats. - Taylor Jenkins Reid

My favourite place is an Emily Henry book. - Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

I've loved every single on of her books more than the previous. - Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

The master at witty repartee. - Daily Mail

I'm obsessed with this author. - Drew Barrymore